Two Elizabethan Writers of Fiction: Thomas Nashe and Thomas Deloney |
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... McKerrow takes the import of the first two sentences of the passage to be : Our age is now grown so ' learned ' that every common work- man or ignorant boor tries to speak elegantly and adorns his language with tags of Latin ; and this ...
... McKerrow takes the import of the first two sentences of the passage to be : Our age is now grown so ' learned ' that every common work- man or ignorant boor tries to speak elegantly and adorns his language with tags of Latin ; and this ...
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... McKerrow remarks that this reply is far more violent than Harvey's attack upon Pierce Penilesse seems to warrant , and unless there was more at the back of the quarrel than we know of , it is difficult to resist the idea that its ...
... McKerrow remarks that this reply is far more violent than Harvey's attack upon Pierce Penilesse seems to warrant , and unless there was more at the back of the quarrel than we know of , it is difficult to resist the idea that its ...
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... McKerrow convincingly argues , this is a misconception : while Lazarillo and the heroes of other picaresque tales are essentially rogues and are only interesting on account of the revelation which the author makes of their knavery ...
... McKerrow convincingly argues , this is a misconception : while Lazarillo and the heroes of other picaresque tales are essentially rogues and are only interesting on account of the revelation which the author makes of their knavery ...
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