Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 86
... Evelina felt awkward at being seen with such com- panions . Indeed , Fanny Burney is never better than when conveying social embarrassments of this kind . Evelina , confronted at this very Opera by the dashing Sir Clement Willoughby ...
... Evelina felt awkward at being seen with such com- panions . Indeed , Fanny Burney is never better than when conveying social embarrassments of this kind . Evelina , confronted at this very Opera by the dashing Sir Clement Willoughby ...
Page 93
... Evelina , her first book , reveals her at her best and her worst . There is a peculiar charm exhaling from this first fresh sparkling gush of her talent . The Branghton scenes show her comedy at its brightest ; Evelina's relation to ...
... Evelina , her first book , reveals her at her best and her worst . There is a peculiar charm exhaling from this first fresh sparkling gush of her talent . The Branghton scenes show her comedy at its brightest ; Evelina's relation to ...
Page 94
... Evelina no less a person than Dr. Johnson himself had taken notice of her . She had read his wonderful books with absorbed awe ; and now she had begun to shape her own unpretentious talent on his august model . Alas , Dr. Johnson was no ...
... Evelina no less a person than Dr. Johnson himself had taken notice of her . She had read his wonderful books with absorbed awe ; and now she had begun to shape her own unpretentious talent on his august model . Alas , Dr. Johnson was no ...
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