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... behaviour , " This is Shandean , ' ' He might be a modern Uncle Toby . ' Sterne's characters , like those of only the greatest writers , have the enduring quality of figures in myth : more is suggested by them than they actually state ...
... behaviour , " This is Shandean , ' ' He might be a modern Uncle Toby . ' Sterne's characters , like those of only the greatest writers , have the enduring quality of figures in myth : more is suggested by them than they actually state ...
Page 102
... behaviour towards Grace Nugent , whom he loves , his renunciation of her when he believes he has discovered that she is illegitimate and therefore , as he theorizes , that she must have inherited her mother's frailty . We are even more ...
... behaviour towards Grace Nugent , whom he loves , his renunciation of her when he believes he has discovered that she is illegitimate and therefore , as he theorizes , that she must have inherited her mother's frailty . We are even more ...
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... behaviour and this adds immeasurably to the truth of his picture of society . Take his very fine near - tragic novel He Knew He Was Right . In a way , the action is precipitated because the two central characters , Louis and Emily ...
... behaviour and this adds immeasurably to the truth of his picture of society . Take his very fine near - tragic novel He Knew He Was Right . In a way , the action is precipitated because the two central characters , Louis and Emily ...
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