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Page 148
... imagination is seen at its most grandiose not in Coningsby but in Tancred , in the scene in which the young Emir Fakredeen Shehaab expounds his plan for the Queen of England to transfer the seat of her empire from London to Delhi . As ...
... imagination is seen at its most grandiose not in Coningsby but in Tancred , in the scene in which the young Emir Fakredeen Shehaab expounds his plan for the Queen of England to transfer the seat of her empire from London to Delhi . As ...
Page 166
... imagination . It was an hallucinatory imagination , and so long as he remains within the comic and satiric or the melodramatic he forces us to share the hallucination . His defects are many and yet , scarcely matter . He was a great ...
... imagination . It was an hallucinatory imagination , and so long as he remains within the comic and satiric or the melodramatic he forces us to share the hallucination . His defects are many and yet , scarcely matter . He was a great ...
Page 179
... imagination turned inwards upon itself , and of ignorance of the world outside Haworth and literature . With Emily this does not matter : Wuthering Heights is a work of art self - contained and complete as very few novels are : one can ...
... imagination turned inwards upon itself , and of ignorance of the world outside Haworth and literature . With Emily this does not matter : Wuthering Heights is a work of art self - contained and complete as very few novels are : one can ...
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