The Sewanee Review, Volume 7University of the South, 1899 - American fiction |
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... reader whose curiosity is sufficiently piqued to induce him to wade through their pages they are inevitably confusing and misleading . These , however , are the mere flotsam and jet- sam of the great current of historical investigation ...
... reader whose curiosity is sufficiently piqued to induce him to wade through their pages they are inevitably confusing and misleading . These , however , are the mere flotsam and jet- sam of the great current of historical investigation ...
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... 1 For the benefit of readers not conversant with the Latin language the information serves that Ursus is the Latin term for a bear , Homo that for a man . faults more or less conspicuous in all the others . Victor Hugo's Novels . 31.
... 1 For the benefit of readers not conversant with the Latin language the information serves that Ursus is the Latin term for a bear , Homo that for a man . faults more or less conspicuous in all the others . Victor Hugo's Novels . 31.
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... readers to see and hear the things that he wished them to see and hear . Only it should be clearly understood what these things were . Chateaubriand , Flau- bert , and the Goncourts make their readers behold trees , houses , rivers ...
... readers to see and hear the things that he wished them to see and hear . Only it should be clearly understood what these things were . Chateaubriand , Flau- bert , and the Goncourts make their readers behold trees , houses , rivers ...
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... reader will easily recall kindred revelries of a riot- ous fancy from Hugo's other novels - one such is the cheek- to - jowl fight between the octopus and Gilliatt in " Toilers of the Sea . " From the moment that " something , thin ...
... reader will easily recall kindred revelries of a riot- ous fancy from Hugo's other novels - one such is the cheek- to - jowl fight between the octopus and Gilliatt in " Toilers of the Sea . " From the moment that " something , thin ...
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... readers as would tire of getting the pictures and diatribes served with no connecting thread whatsoever . Of all literary tricks , that of constructing a plot replete with sus- pense and surprise is the one most easily learned . It is ...
... readers as would tire of getting the pictures and diatribes served with no connecting thread whatsoever . Of all literary tricks , that of constructing a plot replete with sus- pense and surprise is the one most easily learned . It is ...
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