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If he can so manage the business that when we hear a tale told the characters in it grow familiar , that it is as if an actual acquaintance took part in the action , great is the ... Every word spoken must be spoken in character .
If he can so manage the business that when we hear a tale told the characters in it grow familiar , that it is as if an actual acquaintance took part in the action , great is the ... Every word spoken must be spoken in character .
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Whether in these early forgotten attempts he tried his hand at making a character live , we can only guess ; but it is important to remember this step towards the novel of manners . Defoe , as M. Chevalley points out , had brought prose ...
Whether in these early forgotten attempts he tried his hand at making a character live , we can only guess ; but it is important to remember this step towards the novel of manners . Defoe , as M. Chevalley points out , had brought prose ...
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History and human character , then , are what ordinarily attract and edify mature people . Scott's novels are history touched with imagination and expressed through the medium of human character . As a spokesman once more of the ...
History and human character , then , are what ordinarily attract and edify mature people . Scott's novels are history touched with imagination and expressed through the medium of human character . As a spokesman once more of the ...
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Contents
ART PAGE 1 The War Guilt | 201 |
An Early Victorian Childhood | 216 |
Italian Influence on French Art | 242 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volumes 258-259 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1932 |
| Original from | University of Iowa |
| Digitized | 26 Jul 2022 |
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