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... Moll Flanders and Roxana and part of Colonel Jack are not inferior efforts of the same genius that wrote Robinson Crusoe ; but the subject - matter is perhaps less well adapted for the sort of genius , and they are defaced by much both ...
... Moll Flanders and Roxana and part of Colonel Jack are not inferior efforts of the same genius that wrote Robinson Crusoe ; but the subject - matter is perhaps less well adapted for the sort of genius , and they are defaced by much both ...
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... of his actions , and often even of his thoughts . We must use our own insight and judgment if we wish to know what really was the interior character of Moll Flanders , just as we must have 244 UNIDEAL FICTION : DE FOE .
... of his actions , and often even of his thoughts . We must use our own insight and judgment if we wish to know what really was the interior character of Moll Flanders , just as we must have 244 UNIDEAL FICTION : DE FOE .
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William Caldwell Roscoe Richard Holt Hutton. character of Moll Flanders , just as we must have done had we met her in life , -not altogether a pleasant sort of person . None of his heroes or heroines are . Roxana is not pleasant ...
William Caldwell Roscoe Richard Holt Hutton. character of Moll Flanders , just as we must have done had we met her in life , -not altogether a pleasant sort of person . None of his heroes or heroines are . Roxana is not pleasant ...
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... Moll Flanders , Roxana , Colonel Jack , and Singleton , are selfish to the last extreme of baseness : their whole lives are only one struggle to secure their own interests , regardless not only of the welfare of others , but of ...
... Moll Flanders , Roxana , Colonel Jack , and Singleton , are selfish to the last extreme of baseness : their whole lives are only one struggle to secure their own interests , regardless not only of the welfare of others , but of ...
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... Moll Flanders , " this fundamental is most strictly adhered to : there is not a wicked action in any part of it , but is first or last rendered unhappy and unfortunate ; there is not a superlative villain brought upon the stage , but ...
... Moll Flanders , " this fundamental is most strictly adhered to : there is not a wicked action in any part of it , but is first or last rendered unhappy and unfortunate ; there is not a superlative villain brought upon the stage , but ...
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Page 7 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 459 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 7 - COURAGE !" he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Page 372 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 7 - The dawn, the dawn,' and died away; And East and West, without a breath, Mixt their dim lights, like life and death, To broaden into boundless day.
Page 7 - Remorsefully regarded thro' his tears, And would have spoken, but he found not words; Then took with care, and kneeling on one knee, O'er both his shoulders drew the languid hands, And rising bore him thro