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Page 86
... course of which , Faust - like , he sells himself to the powers of evil , is a statement in fable of the author's own dominant impulses : in his own actual life Beckford got as near to being a Vathek as the West allowed . Of its kind of ...
... course of which , Faust - like , he sells himself to the powers of evil , is a statement in fable of the author's own dominant impulses : in his own actual life Beckford got as near to being a Vathek as the West allowed . Of its kind of ...
Page 141
... course , was of a different generation , and came to fiction in middle age after a distinguished career as a naval officer , but Lytton and Disraeli were born in the decade before that which saw the births of the great Victorians . Yet ...
... course , was of a different generation , and came to fiction in middle age after a distinguished career as a naval officer , but Lytton and Disraeli were born in the decade before that which saw the births of the great Victorians . Yet ...
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... course , is the shining example in Dickens of what I have called the poetry of the comic ; only a great poet could have invented her ; she belongs to the same order of creation as Falstaff . It has often been noted that there is no ...
... course , is the shining example in Dickens of what I have called the poetry of the comic ; only a great poet could have invented her ; she belongs to the same order of creation as Falstaff . It has often been noted that there is no ...
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