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In reading , one is delighted with the swiftness of the narration , the economy , the nimble and inexhaustible invention . Fielding had learned much from his experience in the theater , especially how to break up the narrative , set his ...
In reading , one is delighted with the swiftness of the narration , the economy , the nimble and inexhaustible invention . Fielding had learned much from his experience in the theater , especially how to break up the narrative , set his ...
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217-18 In his use of the heroic couplet , Gay is best at narrative , description , and satire ; and of these his most distinctive and original achievements are in satire . For the most part the narrative poems are translations , and as ...
217-18 In his use of the heroic couplet , Gay is best at narrative , description , and satire ; and of these his most distinctive and original achievements are in satire . For the most part the narrative poems are translations , and as ...
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145-46 It is going too far to assert that Smollett lacked all sense of narrative form : he was obviously following the convention of the loose picaresque structure , and he knew what he was doing . Consequently he stressed the single ...
145-46 It is going too far to assert that Smollett lacked all sense of narrative form : he was obviously following the convention of the loose picaresque structure , and he knew what he was doing . Consequently he stressed the single ...
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William Cowper 17311800 | 41 |
David Garrick 17171779 | 80 |
Oliver Goldsmith 17301774 | 86 |
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