The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza HaywoodColumbia University Press, 1915 - 210 стор. |
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... story of her life romantically disguised as the Secret History of Eliza , nor was there One of the Fair Sex ( real or pretended ) to chronicle her " strange and surprising adventures " or to print her passion - stirring epistles , as ...
... story of her life romantically disguised as the Secret History of Eliza , nor was there One of the Fair Sex ( real or pretended ) to chronicle her " strange and surprising adventures " or to print her passion - stirring epistles , as ...
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... story as a " warning to the youth of both sexes . " To modern readers these pieces seem less successful illustrations of fiction made didactic , than of didacticism dissolved and quite forgot in fiction , but Sterling and other ...
... story as a " warning to the youth of both sexes . " To modern readers these pieces seem less successful illustrations of fiction made didactic , than of didacticism dissolved and quite forgot in fiction , but Sterling and other ...
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... story in clear and lively , if not always correct and elegant English , and she could describe the ecstasies and agonies of passion in a way 26 See the Dedication to The Fatal Secret ( 1724 ) . " But as I am a Woman , and consequently ...
... story in clear and lively , if not always correct and elegant English , and she could describe the ecstasies and agonies of passion in a way 26 See the Dedication to The Fatal Secret ( 1724 ) . " But as I am a Woman , and consequently ...
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... interminable tomes of Scudéry , love and honor supplied the place of life and manners in the tales of her female successors , and though in some respects their stories were nearer the standard of 27 SHORT ROMANCES OF PASSION.
... interminable tomes of Scudéry , love and honor supplied the place of life and manners in the tales of her female successors , and though in some respects their stories were nearer the standard of 27 SHORT ROMANCES OF PASSION.
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... stories . In drawing their subjects from the histories of more modern courts than those of Rome , Greece , or Egypt they endeavored to make their " historical " romances of passion more lifelike than the heroic romances , and while they ...
... stories . In drawing their subjects from the histories of more modern courts than those of Rome , Greece , or Egypt they endeavored to make their " historical " romances of passion more lifelike than the heroic romances , and while they ...
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Сторінка 201 - A Comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-lane. By his Majesty's Servants.
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Сторінка 104 - She must be a clever gentlewoman," continued the Queen, " to have made him believe she cares for him on any other score ; and to show you what fools we all are in some point or other, she has certainly told him some fine story or other of her love and her passion, and that poor man — avec ce gros corps, ces jambes enflees, et ce vilain venlre — believes her.
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