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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Page 194
... sketches - sponta- neous bursts of fancy or feeling . His Caudle Lectures , ' ' Story of a Feather , ' ' Men of Character , ' and ' Sketches of the English , ' were highly popular . The style is concise and pungent - too much , per ...
... sketches - sponta- neous bursts of fancy or feeling . His Caudle Lectures , ' ' Story of a Feather , ' ' Men of Character , ' and ' Sketches of the English , ' were highly popular . The style is concise and pungent - too much , per ...
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... sketches evince so much freshness and vigour , that her readers might easily imagine she had spent her life among the scenes she describes . To her early absence from her native country is probably to be traced one strong characteristic ...
... sketches evince so much freshness and vigour , that her readers might easily imagine she had spent her life among the scenes she describes . To her early absence from her native country is probably to be traced one strong characteristic ...
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... Sketches , ' 1847 ; Katherine Ashton , ' 1854 ; Margaret Percival , ' 1858 , & c . Miss Sewell has written various religious works , sketches of continental travel , & c . < 6 " GERALDINE JEWSBURY is more ambitous in style , but not ...
... Sketches , ' 1847 ; Katherine Ashton , ' 1854 ; Margaret Percival , ' 1858 , & c . Miss Sewell has written various religious works , sketches of continental travel , & c . < 6 " GERALDINE JEWSBURY is more ambitous in style , but not ...
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