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... early Victorians . The difference may be indicated easily enough . ' It was part of the felicity of the fifties to ... early middle age . Within thirty years they had departed , and with them perhaps the public sense of 133 The Early ...
... early Victorians . The difference may be indicated easily enough . ' It was part of the felicity of the fifties to ... early middle age . Within thirty years they had departed , and with them perhaps the public sense of 133 The Early ...
Page 135
... early Victorian fiction . Like the French , though at a later date , it was to have a pro- found effect on the English novel ; but the great Victorians them- selves were untouched by foreign influence . They accepted the society in ...
... early Victorian fiction . Like the French , though at a later date , it was to have a pro- found effect on the English novel ; but the great Victorians them- selves were untouched by foreign influence . They accepted the society in ...
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... early Victorian attitudes to a social problem and the early Victorian fear , which amounted almost to hysteria , of the poor . North and South , for one thing , remains much more closely in its author's range of talent . The most ...
... early Victorian attitudes to a social problem and the early Victorian fear , which amounted almost to hysteria , of the poor . North and South , for one thing , remains much more closely in its author's range of talent . The most ...
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