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... effects - either jokes or attempts to move us - are disastrous . But most shrewd of all is Thackeray's image of an anxious author watching to see his effect upon us , to see whether we think him an impostor . I would take that image one ...
... effects - either jokes or attempts to move us - are disastrous . But most shrewd of all is Thackeray's image of an anxious author watching to see his effect upon us , to see whether we think him an impostor . I would take that image one ...
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... effect of ' realism ' in eighteenth - century fiction . In 1750 , in The Rambler , Johnson spoke of this effect : " The works of fiction , with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted , are such as exhibit life in ...
... effect of ' realism ' in eighteenth - century fiction . In 1750 , in The Rambler , Johnson spoke of this effect : " The works of fiction , with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted , are such as exhibit life in ...
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... effect . Lydia's plot served to publish the sermons under a hasty alliance of Becket with Strahan and his partner Thomas Cadell . They appeared on 3 June 1769 with 729 subscribers . As her father had done , Lydia came to London for the ...
... effect . Lydia's plot served to publish the sermons under a hasty alliance of Becket with Strahan and his partner Thomas Cadell . They appeared on 3 June 1769 with 729 subscribers . As her father had done , Lydia came to London for the ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS page xiii | 1 |
When They Begot Me | 33 |
Heygomad | 45 |
Copyright | |
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