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Page 92
... gives the novel a real strength . Much less openly doctrinaire than Bage and Godwin , Mrs Smith was all the same a radical ; without in the least distorting her fiction to propaganda ends , she was using it to embody her criticism of ...
... gives the novel a real strength . Much less openly doctrinaire than Bage and Godwin , Mrs Smith was all the same a radical ; without in the least distorting her fiction to propaganda ends , she was using it to embody her criticism of ...
Page 232
... gives The Egoist its permanently fascinating subtlety . Wit and poetry exist side by side , and each irradiates the other . It is this combination that gives Meredith his special place in the novel . In the history of the novel ...
... gives The Egoist its permanently fascinating subtlety . Wit and poetry exist side by side , and each irradiates the other . It is this combination that gives Meredith his special place in the novel . In the history of the novel ...
Page 334
... gives it a remark- able complexity , for it is compounded not only of the character's thought , feeling , mood at the instant of apprehension but also of a most delicate sensuous though perhaps not more than half - conscious ...
... gives it a remark- able complexity , for it is compounded not only of the character's thought , feeling , mood at the instant of apprehension but also of a most delicate sensuous though perhaps not more than half - conscious ...
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