• Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  American critic and biographer
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1. entertained
2. historical
3. generally
4. idealized
5. brought
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. by : Carl Clinton Van Doren

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