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" A novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. "
The Novels of Tobias Smollett: Count Fathom. Sir Launcelot Greaves ... - Page 4
by Tobias Smollett - 1821
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The novels of Tobias Smollett. To which is prefixed, a memoir of ..., Volume 3

Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 756 pages
...can I with more propriety appeal in my explanation, than to you, vs in i are so well acquainted with all the sentiments and emotions of my breast ? A Novel...life, disposed in different groupes, and exhibited m various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual...
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The novels of Tobias Smollett. To which is prefixed, a memoir of ..., Volume 3

Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 738 pages
...whom can I with more propriety appeal in my explanation, than to you, who are so well acquainted with all the sentiments and emotions of my breast ? A Novel...comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groupcs, and exhibited m various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence,...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan: With Remarks Upon ...

Alicia Lefanu - 1824 - 462 pages
...the work in confirmation of this remark. An old master of the art* has aptly defined a novel to be " a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of a uniform plan and general concurrence,...
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A History of English Prose Fiction from Sir Thomas Malory to George Eliot

Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 352 pages
...of adventures, linked together by their occurrence to the same individuals. " A novel," he said, " is a large, diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of a uniform plan and general occurrence,...
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The Works of Tobias Smollett: Count Fathom, 1895

Tobias Smollett - 1895 - 290 pages
...whom can I with more propriety appeal in my explanation than to you, who are so well acquainted with all the sentiments and emotions of my breast ? A novel...comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence,...
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The Works of Tobias Smollett ...

Tobias George Smollett - 1902 - 758 pages
...whom can I with more propriety appeal in my explanation than to you, who are so well acquainted with all the sentiments and emotions of my breast? A novel...comprehending the characters of life, disposed ;in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence,...
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The Works of Tobias Smollett ...

Tobias George Smollett - 1902 - 758 pages
...whom can I with more propriety appeal in my explanation than to you, who are so well acquainted with all the sentiments and emotions of my breast? A novel...picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed iin different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and...
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Studien über Byron und Wordsworth

Francis Heveningham Pughe - 1902 - 188 pages
...sonst eigentümliche entwicklung des charakters an ' ). So sagt Smollett in einer seiner widmungen: „A novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups and exhibited in different attitudes, for the purpose of an uniform plan. This", heisst es weiter,...
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The Works of Tobias Smollett, Volume 8

Tobias Smollett - 1905 - 356 pages
...whom can I with more propriety appeal in my explanation than to you, who are so well acquainted with all the sentiments and emotions of my breast? A novel...diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed1 in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan,...
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The Study of a Novel

Selden Lincoln Whitcomb - 1905 - 364 pages
...and Chapter I. of Ferdinand, Count Fathom ; burlesque of Gothic method in Sir Launcelot Greaves. — "A novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence,...
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