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Page 95
... called upon to conceive a dramatic and impressive situation adequate to account for the impulse that the pursuer should feel , incessantly to alarm and harass his victim , with an inextinguishable resolution never to allow him the least ...
... called upon to conceive a dramatic and impressive situation adequate to account for the impulse that the pursuer should feel , incessantly to alarm and harass his victim , with an inextinguishable resolution never to allow him the least ...
Page 161
... called upon you that evening when you were , as I may say , floating your powerful mind , in tea , ' we feel that the current of satire , of moral indignation , has been inhibited ; for the character , through the poetry of the comic ...
... called upon you that evening when you were , as I may say , floating your powerful mind , in tea , ' we feel that the current of satire , of moral indignation , has been inhibited ; for the character , through the poetry of the comic ...
Page 263
... called a ' fine central intelligence ' , Maisie's in What Maisie Knew , Strether's in The Ambassadors . As R. P. Blackmur has written in his introduction to his edition of James's prefaces called The Art of the Novel : .. The novel was ...
... called a ' fine central intelligence ' , Maisie's in What Maisie Knew , Strether's in The Ambassadors . As R. P. Blackmur has written in his introduction to his edition of James's prefaces called The Art of the Novel : .. The novel was ...
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