Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 7Robert Chambers Amer. Book Exchange, 1879 - English literature |
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... novel , Falkland , ' a highly coloured tale of love and passion , calculated to excite and inflame , and evidently based on admiration of the peculiar genius and seductive errors of Byron . Taking up the style of the fashion- able novels ...
... novel , Falkland , ' a highly coloured tale of love and passion , calculated to excite and inflame , and evidently based on admiration of the peculiar genius and seductive errors of Byron . Taking up the style of the fashion- able novels ...
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... novel - readers by her novel ' George Geith , ' a really powerful fiction . In her later works she has gone too far in the direction of plot and sensation merely . In 1875 an anonymous novel , ' Coming through the Rye , ' became at once ...
... novel - readers by her novel ' George Geith , ' a really powerful fiction . In her later works she has gone too far in the direction of plot and sensation merely . In 1875 an anonymous novel , ' Coming through the Rye , ' became at once ...
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... novel en- titled Citoyene Jacqueline , ' by SARAH TYTLER . The violence and strife of that reign of terror is contrasted with the grace and delicacy of the inmates of a chāteau , from which the heroine is taken to unite at last the ...
... novel en- titled Citoyene Jacqueline , ' by SARAH TYTLER . The violence and strife of that reign of terror is contrasted with the grace and delicacy of the inmates of a chāteau , from which the heroine is taken to unite at last the ...
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