Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Reader: Charles Maturin

 

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1700-1799
1800-1849
"By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust w...Charles Robert Maturin Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
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"By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust w...Charles Robert Maturin Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
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?In his Sir Charles Grandison, the inherent vulgarity, egotism and prolixity of Richardson?s character breakout with a...Charles Robert Maturin Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
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?Her next obvious defect (we hesitate to call it a defect) is a total moral inability to paint the strongest passion t...Charles Robert Maturin Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1800-1849?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this...Charles Robert Maturin Maria EdgeworthBelindaPrint: Book
1800-1849?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this...Charles Robert Maturin Maria EdgeworthComic DramasPrint: Book
1800-1849?Miss Edgeworth?s incomparable description of Mrs Beaumont?s marriage in Manoeuvering, where the interesting, almost f...Charles Robert Maturin Maria EdgeworthTales of Fashionable LifePrint: Book
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?It would be necessary to notice here, when we profess to give a sketch of the progress of novel or romance writing, a...Charles Robert Maturin Charlotte LennoxThe Female QuixotePrint: Book
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?Cumberland attempted and failed to revive the classical English novel. We sit down in fact by Cumberlands? fireside a...Charles Robert Maturin Richard CumberlandArundelPrint: Book
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?Walpole?s Catle of Otranto, though dramatized by Jephson, has few imitations. Clara Reeve?s English Baron was the bes...Charles Robert Maturin Clara ReeveThe Old English BaronPrint: Book
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??the work of Mrs Hannah More called Coelebs in search of a wife, as not knowing well where to class it. It is too pur...Charles Robert Maturin Hannah MoreCoelebs in search of a wifePrint: Book
1800-1849?Upon the whole, this play with the powerful assistance of eminent actors and scenical illusion and burning palaces, a...Charles Maturin Richard Lalor SheilThe Apostate: a tragedy in five actsPrint: Book
1800-1849?Amid these dark middle ages of novel literature, Miss Burney?s Evelina strikes us with the first gleam of ?rescued na...Charles Maturin Fanny BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
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?In the works of Fielding our credulity is not taxed for superfluous admiration by any of those faultless monsters? Fi...Charles Maturin Henry FieldingThe History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingPrint: Book
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?The transition from the vapid sentimentality of the novel of fifty years ago to the goblin horrors of the last twenty...Charles Maturin Charlotte SmithThe Old Manor HousePrint: Book
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??in Mrs Radcliff?s romances. She was ? an extraordinary female, and her style of writing ? must be allowed to form an...Charles Maturin Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
?The most extraordinary production of this period was the powerful and wicked romance of The Monk.?Charles Maturin Matthew Gregory LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
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?But Lord Byron ? he must write with great ease and rapidity.? ?That I don?t know. I could never finish the perusal...Charles Maturin George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
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"'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?' 'Otway, Le...Charles Robert Maturin Thomas OtwayComplete PlaysPrint: Book
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"'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?' 'Otway, Le...Charles Maturin Thomas SouthernComplete PlaysPrint: Book
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??Coleridge, who, en parenthesis, he disliked for a merciless attack on his tragedy. Which the ill success of the ?Rem...Charles Maturin Samuel Taylor ColeridgeChristabel and Other PoemsPrint: Book
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?He ingenuously seized opportunities, when his parents were away from home, to construct his private theatricals, whic...Charles Robert Maturin Nathaniel LeeThe Rival Queens, or The Death of AlexanderPrint: Book
1800-1849?In May 1820 Sheridan Knowles produced ?Virginius?. The extraordinary success of that play naturally excited Maturin?s...Charles Robert Maturin James Sheridan KnowlesVirginiusPrint: Book
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"I can see no difference between his case [Nathaniel Lee] and Shelley or Byron, except that they have method and he ha...Charles Robert Maturin Nathaniel LeePrint: Book
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?Of Sir Walter Scott I have heard Maturin speak in terms of rapture. He considered his extraordinary productions the g...Charles Robert Maturin Sir Walter Scottcomplete works to 1820Print: Book
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??And which of the living poets fulfils your ideal standard of excellence?? ?Crabbe. He is all nature without pomp ...Charles Robert Maturin George Crabbepoetic worksPrint: Book
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??Moore, who is a poet of inspiration, could write in any circumstances. There is no man of the age labours harder tha...Charles Robert Maturin Thomas MooreComplete Poems and SongsPrint: Book
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??And whom do you estimate after Crabbe?? ?I am disposed to say Hogg. His ?Queen?s wake? is splendid and impassione...Charles Robert Maturin James HoggPrint: Book
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"Another favourite of his was Hogg, whose ballad of "Bonny Kilmery" he had by heart."Charles Robert Maturin James HoggBonny KilmenyPrint: Book

 

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