Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster Macmillan, 1925 - 379 páginas |
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... stories that " " grip " you , like the influenza , in a newspaper review or its twin brother , the publisher's advertise- ment of the latest novel . The remedy is largely a rhetorical one , and is more easily stated than applied ; for ...
... stories that " " grip " you , like the influenza , in a newspaper review or its twin brother , the publisher's advertise- ment of the latest novel . The remedy is largely a rhetorical one , and is more easily stated than applied ; for ...
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... story , as poor Arch- deacon Coxe pathetically declares , was industriously propagated . But the case against Wood was all the stronger . Is he so wicked , asks Swift , as to suppose that a nation is to be ruined that he may gain three ...
... story , as poor Arch- deacon Coxe pathetically declares , was industriously propagated . But the case against Wood was all the stronger . Is he so wicked , asks Swift , as to suppose that a nation is to be ruined that he may gain three ...
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... story much to the purpose from old Leicester experience . The justices had reduced the price of ale to three - halfpence a quart . One of them , therefore , requested that they would make another order to appoint who should drink it ...
... story much to the purpose from old Leicester experience . The justices had reduced the price of ale to three - halfpence a quart . One of them , therefore , requested that they would make another order to appoint who should drink it ...
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... story is more characteristic . Swift's butler had acted as his amanuensis , and absented himself one night whilst the proc- lamation was running . Swift thought that the butler was either treacherous or presuming upon his knowledge of ...
... story is more characteristic . Swift's butler had acted as his amanuensis , and absented himself one night whilst the proc- lamation was running . Swift thought that the butler was either treacherous or presuming upon his knowledge of ...
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... story ) " about the Pince Wegent " ( such was his nearest approximation to Prince Regent ) . " Oh , the Pince Wegent ! the Pince Wegent ! - what a sad Pince Wegent ! " And so the old babbler went on , sometimes wringing his hands in ...
... story ) " about the Pince Wegent " ( such was his nearest approximation to Prince Regent ) . " Oh , the Pince Wegent ! the Pince Wegent ! - what a sad Pince Wegent ! " And so the old babbler went on , sometimes wringing his hands in ...
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