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... Disraeli's later work . As a novel it is fantastic : Disraeli when he wrote it had no practical experience of politics . Lath - and - paper personæ , masks for the author himself , engage in scintillating con- versation against a two ...
... Disraeli's later work . As a novel it is fantastic : Disraeli when he wrote it had no practical experience of politics . Lath - and - paper personæ , masks for the author himself , engage in scintillating con- versation against a two ...
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... Disraeli combined a curiously romantic , indeed histrionic , imagin- ation with a genius for the necessary compromises and calculating realism of ordinary politics . This romantic imagination is seen at its most grandiose not in ...
... Disraeli combined a curiously romantic , indeed histrionic , imagin- ation with a genius for the necessary compromises and calculating realism of ordinary politics . This romantic imagination is seen at its most grandiose not in ...
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... Disraeli was an outsider , a parvenu : he was also a man of fierce pride , of pride in race . Coningsby and his friends may be sprigs of aristocracy , but as Sidonia tells Coningsby , the English aristocracy is itself parvenu compared ...
... Disraeli was an outsider , a parvenu : he was also a man of fierce pride , of pride in race . Coningsby and his friends may be sprigs of aristocracy , but as Sidonia tells Coningsby , the English aristocracy is itself parvenu compared ...
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