English Literature ...New university society, 1941 |
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... romances for some time at the rate of two a year and made fifteen hundred pounds a year from them . He had been renowned as a story teller at school and now , in Waverley , romance appeared as never before . The public still had its ...
... romances for some time at the rate of two a year and made fifteen hundred pounds a year from them . He had been renowned as a story teller at school and now , in Waverley , romance appeared as never before . The public still had its ...
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... romance suffered the bitterness of social inferiority . His novels reflect these impressions . Dickens combined realism and romance with a sense of humour and a wide humanity . In these characteristics he is English of the English ...
... romance suffered the bitterness of social inferiority . His novels reflect these impressions . Dickens combined realism and romance with a sense of humour and a wide humanity . In these characteristics he is English of the English ...
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... romance . The national consciousness was increasing ; the exploits of Raleigh and Drake , and the discoveries in science and letters were all one with the temper of the age . A courtier of Queen Elizabeth might write sonnets to his lady ...
... romance . The national consciousness was increasing ; the exploits of Raleigh and Drake , and the discoveries in science and letters were all one with the temper of the age . A courtier of Queen Elizabeth might write sonnets to his lady ...
Contents
READING MAKETH A FULL MAN by Geoffrey Crump M | 15 |
A MIRROR HELD UP TO LIFE | 24 |
TOM JONES IN TROUBLE Henry Fielding | 59 |
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