Poets and Story-tellersBarnes & Noble, 1961 - 201 pages |
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Page 81
... Fanny Burney's novels , for the first time , the process of an ordinary , legitimate , everyday courtship becomes the central theme of an English novel . Richardson was bound to be her master here . He was the ... FANNY BURNEY 81.
... Fanny Burney's novels , for the first time , the process of an ordinary , legitimate , everyday courtship becomes the central theme of an English novel . Richardson was bound to be her master here . He was the ... FANNY BURNEY 81.
Page 87
... Fanny Burney was on other snobs , I am afraid she herself cannot be altogether acquitted of snobbishness . A social lapse was to her a tragedy . Still , the emotion she puts into them makes her accounts of such ... FANNY BURNEY 87.
... Fanny Burney was on other snobs , I am afraid she herself cannot be altogether acquitted of snobbishness . A social lapse was to her a tragedy . Still , the emotion she puts into them makes her accounts of such ... FANNY BURNEY 87.
Page 95
... Fanny Burney was not an artist , she was not even an efficient craftsman ; she approached her work without understanding the capacities either of her own talent or of the form which she had chosen . Responsive and ... FANNY BURNEY 95.
... Fanny Burney was not an artist , she was not even an efficient craftsman ; she approached her work without understanding the capacities either of her own talent or of the form which she had chosen . Responsive and ... FANNY BURNEY 95.
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