Essays--Fielding: Smollett: Hazlitt: Burns: Byron's World: 'Pippin': Othello: 'T.E.B.': Old England: Balzac: Hugo--Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1921 - 431 strán (strany) |
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... whole , are on the whole con- temptuous ; 1 there are others in Horace Walpole , that Faddle of genius , whom God and his oppor- tunities made the best letter - writer in Eighteenth- Century England ; there is one magnificent reference ...
... whole , are on the whole con- temptuous ; 1 there are others in Horace Walpole , that Faddle of genius , whom God and his oppor- tunities made the best letter - writer in Eighteenth- Century England ; there is one magnificent reference ...
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... whole one is not sorry that her ' eagle ' found her dull , and escaped her society for the Garrick , as soon as ever ( with an approach to polite- ness ) he could . 2 Mr. Saintsbury is nearly always correct about Fielding . A whiff ...
... whole one is not sorry that her ' eagle ' found her dull , and escaped her society for the Garrick , as soon as ever ( with an approach to polite- ness ) he could . 2 Mr. Saintsbury is nearly always correct about Fielding . A whiff ...
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... whole civilised world , during many hun- dreds of years : Puritanism ( or , better still , the Prudery which is the worst and most mischievous effect of Puritanism ) always excepted : why there should be . This apart , how- ever it is ...
... whole civilised world , during many hun- dreds of years : Puritanism ( or , better still , the Prudery which is the worst and most mischievous effect of Puritanism ) always excepted : why there should be . This apart , how- ever it is ...
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... which , being unconsciously revealed , appear , and probably are , so true that , seen in their light , the veracity of the whole report is made to seem unassailable . 1 upon a parody : with Pamela's brother , Joseph 38 ESSAYS.
... which , being unconsciously revealed , appear , and probably are , so true that , seen in their light , the veracity of the whole report is made to seem unassailable . 1 upon a parody : with Pamela's brother , Joseph 38 ESSAYS.
Strana 40
... whole . Now , in Pamela , none is permitted to fornicate ; yet the theme of the novel is Fornica- tion . Mr. B. is always hovering round in a most dreadful and indecent state ; and Pamela is always praying to be pro- tected from a kind ...
... whole . Now , in Pamela , none is permitted to fornicate ; yet the theme of the novel is Fornica- tion . Mr. B. is always hovering round in a most dreadful and indecent state ; and Pamela is always praying to be pro- tected from a kind ...
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