Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 5B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pagina's |
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... written for temporary effect , had run through six or seven editions , and had then been gathered to the novels of Afra Behn , and the epic poems of Sir Richard Blackmore . Yet the early works of Madame D'Arblay , in spite of the lapse ...
... written for temporary effect , had run through six or seven editions , and had then been gathered to the novels of Afra Behn , and the epic poems of Sir Richard Blackmore . Yet the early works of Madame D'Arblay , in spite of the lapse ...
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... written in Madame D'Arblay's later style , the worst style that has ever been known among men . No genius , no information , could save from proscription a book so written . We , therefore , opened the Diary with no small anxiety ...
... written in Madame D'Arblay's later style , the worst style that has ever been known among men . No genius , no information , could save from proscription a book so written . We , therefore , opened the Diary with no small anxiety ...
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... writing , she was still fond of using her pen . She began to keep a diary , and she corresponded largely with a person who seems to have had the chief share in the forma- tion of her mind . This was Samuel Crisp , an old friend of her ...
... writing , she was still fond of using her pen . She began to keep a diary , and she corresponded largely with a person who seems to have had the chief share in the forma- tion of her mind . This was Samuel Crisp , an old friend of her ...
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... writing scores of bad tragedies in defiance of censure and derision . But he had too much sense to risk a second defeat , yet too little sense to bear his first defeat like a man . The fatal delusion that he was a great dramatist , had ...
... writing scores of bad tragedies in defiance of censure and derision . But he had too much sense to risk a second defeat , yet too little sense to bear his first defeat like a man . The fatal delusion that he was a great dramatist , had ...
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... written a play called Virginia acted in 1754. To the last , however , the unhappy man con- tinued to brood over the injustice of the manager and the pit , and tried to convince himself and others that he had missed the highest literary ...
... written a play called Virginia acted in 1754. To the last , however , the unhappy man con- tinued to brood over the injustice of the manager and the pit , and tried to convince himself and others that he had missed the highest literary ...
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