Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 1068
... novels ; and then look into the novels which they read ! I have seen a young man's whole library consisting of thirty or ... novel by an author of any repute on one of them . There were heaps of nameless garbage , commended by tasteless ...
... novels ; and then look into the novels which they read ! I have seen a young man's whole library consisting of thirty or ... novel by an author of any repute on one of them . There were heaps of nameless garbage , commended by tasteless ...
Page 1069
... novels he is lifted above it by his loyalty to his art . II . The Lamp of Ideality . - The materials of the novel- ist must be real ; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation . But they must pass ...
... novels he is lifted above it by his loyalty to his art . II . The Lamp of Ideality . - The materials of the novel- ist must be real ; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation . But they must pass ...
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... novels he is still ideal . Historical romance is a perilous thing . The fiction is apt to spoil the fact , and the fact the fiction ; the history to be perverted and the romance to be shackled ; daylight to kill dreamlight , and ...
... novels he is still ideal . Historical romance is a perilous thing . The fiction is apt to spoil the fact , and the fact the fiction ; the history to be perverted and the romance to be shackled ; daylight to kill dreamlight , and ...
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... novel , the author of which intro- duced himself almost by name as a heroic character , with a description of his own personal appearance , residence , and habits , as fond fancy painted them to himself . There is a novelist , who is a ...
... novel , the author of which intro- duced himself almost by name as a heroic character , with a description of his own personal appearance , residence , and habits , as fond fancy painted them to himself . There is a novelist , who is a ...
Page 1073
... novels were before Scott . We know the impurity , half - redeemed , of Field- ing , the unredeemed impurity of ... novel , representing a girl tied to a table and a man cutting off her feet into a tub . Another day we are allured ...
... novels were before Scott . We know the impurity , half - redeemed , of Field- ing , the unredeemed impurity of ... novel , representing a girl tied to a table and a man cutting off her feet into a tub . Another day we are allured ...
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