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... never prevailed widely , as in the case of the Memoirs of a Cavalier , that this work was from another hand than Defoe's . True , some of the more ignorant eighteenth- century readers were imposed upon , as Defoe hoped they would be ...
... never prevailed widely , as in the case of the Memoirs of a Cavalier , that this work was from another hand than Defoe's . True , some of the more ignorant eighteenth- century readers were imposed upon , as Defoe hoped they would be ...
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... never existed . We know that in many cases Defoe wrote and had published histories of real criminals ; and it is possible that the life of some such person gave him the hint for Moll Flanders , as the life of the pirate , Avery , gave ...
... never existed . We know that in many cases Defoe wrote and had published histories of real criminals ; and it is possible that the life of some such person gave him the hint for Moll Flanders , as the life of the pirate , Avery , gave ...
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... never becomes tedious , as it too often does in our author's other works.1 It interests us in the account of Moll's meeting her son 1 As is sometimes the case , Defoe here is once or twice in- accurate in matters of fact . His ...
... never becomes tedious , as it too often does in our author's other works.1 It interests us in the account of Moll's meeting her son 1 As is sometimes the case , Defoe here is once or twice in- accurate in matters of fact . His ...
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... never gets quite beyond our sympathy . We never quite forget that the instinct for self - preservation first drives Moll to her amours , and , when she grows older , to her thieving ; though in both , it must be said , the excitement of ...
... never gets quite beyond our sympathy . We never quite forget that the instinct for self - preservation first drives Moll to her amours , and , when she grows older , to her thieving ; though in both , it must be said , the excitement of ...
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... never had the least thought of what she suspected as to her younger brother ; indeed , the elder brother , in his distant , remote way , had said a great many things as in jest , which I had the folly to believe were in earnest , or to ...
... never had the least thought of what she suspected as to her younger brother ; indeed , the elder brother , in his distant , remote way , had said a great many things as in jest , which I had the folly to believe were in earnest , or to ...
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