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... Scott the best historical stories were little more than the posturing of lay figures under lime- light . Scott's were the first great novels dealing with the past . He was the founder of an art in which few have succeeded , but these ...
... Scott the best historical stories were little more than the posturing of lay figures under lime- light . Scott's were the first great novels dealing with the past . He was the founder of an art in which few have succeeded , but these ...
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... Scott wanted something better , and left to himself he could not find it . In his essay on Clara Reeve he sets out his difficulties and his solu- tion . " To interest a modern reader , " he says , " the writer must invest his characters ...
... Scott wanted something better , and left to himself he could not find it . In his essay on Clara Reeve he sets out his difficulties and his solu- tion . " To interest a modern reader , " he says , " the writer must invest his characters ...
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... Scott feel ? -How did he con- ceive the transition of which he was the witness ? It is a question always worth asking about an historian , because the historian is one to whom the past has something of the homely triviality of the ...
... Scott feel ? -How did he con- ceive the transition of which he was the witness ? It is a question always worth asking about an historian , because the historian is one to whom the past has something of the homely triviality of the ...
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Fact and Fancy in Medieval English Literature By Miss | 12 |
III | 28 |
Atalanta in Calydon By C M Bowra M A F B A | 51 |
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