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... described so vividly that , even when read today , they get under the skin . They remain true , and pathetically right ; and here Locke stands out as the prototype of the class - conscious characters , their minds rankling with pride ...
... described so vividly that , even when read today , they get under the skin . They remain true , and pathetically right ; and here Locke stands out as the prototype of the class - conscious characters , their minds rankling with pride ...
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... described may be , they strike one as much more modern . The industrial revolution is not far away ; nor is the religion that came out of it ; nor is eighteenth - century rationalism . The scenes of witch- craft in The Return of the ...
... described may be , they strike one as much more modern . The industrial revolution is not far away ; nor is the religion that came out of it ; nor is eighteenth - century rationalism . The scenes of witch- craft in The Return of the ...
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... described as an autobiographical fantasia , projected in the form of a collection of personal essays largely composed in that curious dialect of written English Lamb devised from the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ...
... described as an autobiographical fantasia , projected in the form of a collection of personal essays largely composed in that curious dialect of written English Lamb devised from the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ...
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