The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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Page 177
... writers . Some readers , nourished on the fare of the Victorians , have objected to Hazlitt on the ground that his writing shows mere feeling and no moral purpose . Certainly , one does not think of him as a moralist with a message like ...
... writers . Some readers , nourished on the fare of the Victorians , have objected to Hazlitt on the ground that his writing shows mere feeling and no moral purpose . Certainly , one does not think of him as a moralist with a message like ...
Page 178
... writing , an abiding faith in human nature , a devotion to beauty and an allegiance to ideals of square - dealing , honesty and truthfulness , that made his life happy when those who looked on - all save one— called him of all men most ...
... writing , an abiding faith in human nature , a devotion to beauty and an allegiance to ideals of square - dealing , honesty and truthfulness , that made his life happy when those who looked on - all save one— called him of all men most ...
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... writing so fine a story . ' Nothing , ' wrote Richard Garnett , ' but an absolute magnetising of her brain by Shelley's can account for her having risen so far above her usual self as in Frankenstein . Comparison of Frankenstein with a ...
... writing so fine a story . ' Nothing , ' wrote Richard Garnett , ' but an absolute magnetising of her brain by Shelley's can account for her having risen so far above her usual self as in Frankenstein . Comparison of Frankenstein with a ...
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