Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 5B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... whole collection there was only a single novel , Fielding's Amelia . An education , however , which to most girls would have been useless , but which suited Fanny's mind better than ela- borate culture , was in constant progress during ...
... whole collection there was only a single novel , Fielding's Amelia . An education , however , which to most girls would have been useless , but which suited Fanny's mind better than ela- borate culture , was in constant progress during ...
Pagina 14
... whole piece was one blemish , and that the passages which were meant to be fine , were , in truth , bursts of that tame extravagance into which writers fall , when they set them- selves to be sublime and pathetic in spite of nature . He ...
... whole piece was one blemish , and that the passages which were meant to be fine , were , in truth , bursts of that tame extravagance into which writers fall , when they set them- selves to be sublime and pathetic in spite of nature . He ...
Pagina 19
... whole happiness of her life might depend , a step which might raise her to an honourable eminence , or cover her with ridicule and contempt . Several people had already been trusted , and strict concealment was therefore not to be ex ...
... whole happiness of her life might depend , a step which might raise her to an honourable eminence , or cover her with ridicule and contempt . Several people had already been trusted , and strict concealment was therefore not to be ex ...
Pagina 24
... whole , that it would remind every reader of the Femmes Savantes , which , strange to say , she had never read , and that she could not sustain so close a comparison with Molière . This opinion , in which Dr. Burney concurred , was sent ...
... whole , that it would remind every reader of the Femmes Savantes , which , strange to say , she had never read , and that she could not sustain so close a comparison with Molière . This opinion , in which Dr. Burney concurred , was sent ...
Pagina 29
... that she should pass her whole life under the restraints of a paltry etiquette , should some- times fast till she was ready to swoon with hunger , should sometimes stand till her knees gave way with fatigue ; MADAME D'ARBLAY . 29.
... that she should pass her whole life under the restraints of a paltry etiquette , should some- times fast till she was ready to swoon with hunger , should sometimes stand till her knees gave way with fatigue ; MADAME D'ARBLAY . 29.
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