A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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Page 147
... novel , play , or poem ; yet he drew but little from the life around him . The revels with Raleigh and Jonson at the Mermaid and the Falcon , may have suggested some hints for the pictures of life in the Boar's Head Tavern , Eastcheap ...
... novel , play , or poem ; yet he drew but little from the life around him . The revels with Raleigh and Jonson at the Mermaid and the Falcon , may have suggested some hints for the pictures of life in the Boar's Head Tavern , Eastcheap ...
Page 221
... novels of the period also bear the brand and scars of vice , and flaunt them openly in the eyes of all . The writers of such things penned them without compunction ; and there were few who thought it shame to read of vicious deeds ...
... novels of the period also bear the brand and scars of vice , and flaunt them openly in the eyes of all . The writers of such things penned them without compunction ; and there were few who thought it shame to read of vicious deeds ...
Page 308
... novel , Pamela , or Virtue Re- warded , is the domestic history of a pretty peasant girl who goes out to service ; and , after enduring many mishaps and escaping A.D. many dangers , becomes the wife of her rich young master . 1740 A ...
... novel , Pamela , or Virtue Re- warded , is the domestic history of a pretty peasant girl who goes out to service ; and , after enduring many mishaps and escaping A.D. many dangers , becomes the wife of her rich young master . 1740 A ...
Page 309
... novels in this fast age ; for their extreme length and minuteness of description , -in which there appears something of a womanish love of gossip - repel any but earnest students of English fiction . Our appetite for such tedious works ...
... novels in this fast age ; for their extreme length and minuteness of description , -in which there appears something of a womanish love of gossip - repel any but earnest students of English fiction . Our appetite for such tedious works ...
Page 311
... novel of Joseph Andrews , a wicked mockery of those virtuous lessons which the respectable printer of Salisbury Court had endeavoured to inculcate by his first book . The life of Fielding has in it much of the same colouring and scenery ...
... novel of Joseph Andrews , a wicked mockery of those virtuous lessons which the respectable printer of Salisbury Court had endeavoured to inculcate by his first book . The life of Fielding has in it much of the same colouring and scenery ...
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