Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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... eighteenth century ; so he was an eighteenth - century scholar - aesthete . Now this was something very unlike the nineteenthcentury type of which Pater is an example . Nineteenth- century 48 POETS AND STORY - TELLERS.
... eighteenth century ; so he was an eighteenth - century scholar - aesthete . Now this was something very unlike the nineteenthcentury type of which Pater is an example . Nineteenth- century 48 POETS AND STORY - TELLERS.
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... eighteenth - century forebears . For England , in the eighteenth century , was an integrated society in which people agreed to respect each other's interests and united to accept similar standards of value . Often they differed in ...
... eighteenth - century forebears . For England , in the eighteenth century , was an integrated society in which people agreed to respect each other's interests and united to accept similar standards of value . Often they differed in ...
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... eighteenth - century novels Fanny Burney's comes as a welcome relief . Moreover - it was her outstanding talent she was extremely observant of the surface of existence . Fanny Burney can bring to life not only her central figures but ...
... eighteenth - century novels Fanny Burney's comes as a welcome relief . Moreover - it was her outstanding talent she was extremely observant of the surface of existence . Fanny Burney can bring to life not only her central figures but ...
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