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共 28 段- One can almost fancy De Foe chuckling as he concocted the re
- No man was ever yet so void of sense,
- This book, more than any of the others, shows a skill in sel
- Such reflections naturally occur in speaking of one of our g
- To return, however, it must be granted that Richardson's sym
- All this is easy enough. A novelist can make his women fall
- To make the story complete, the plot should have been as eff
- This, however, was natural enough when the South Sea scheme
- Pope's gallant assault on the common enemy indicates, meanwh
- That is the pith of his teaching. All optimism is apt to be
- whilst Scott seems half to admit that his conduct required
- For this reason, again, Scott bestows an apparently dispropo
- If he too often indulged in mere theatrical devices, and mis
- But how was the task to be performed? How was the imaginativ
- In fact Hawthorne was able to tread in that magic circle onl
- Before accepting Balzac's guidance into these mysterious reg
- Hideous as the performance appears when coolly stated, it mu
- The life of De Quincey by "H. A. Page," published since this
- To take a more serious case. De Quincey undertakes to refute
- Voltaire and Rousseau have the double title to hatred of bei
- We must not, however, linger too long with these singular sp
- Passing from the portrait to the original, we may recognise,
- These and a string of similar maxims are the pith of Frankli
- The heads of most people begin to swim when they have procee
- Without dwelling upon the relations of this doctrine to mode
- The history of England, throughout a very large segment of t
- It is not wonderful, we must confess, that burly ministers a
- The literary power implied in these brilliant sketches is re