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... instance , it does not really matter whether Dickens was justified in his attack on the poor law or whether he was writing of workhouses already obsolete at the time of writing . He is concerned not with actual institutions but symbolic ...
... instance , it does not really matter whether Dickens was justified in his attack on the poor law or whether he was writing of workhouses already obsolete at the time of writing . He is concerned not with actual institutions but symbolic ...
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... instance of this process . When he comes out with such a magnificently comic phrase as ' Since I called upon you that evening when you were , as I may say , floating your powerful mind , in tea , ' we feel that the current of satire ...
... instance of this process . When he comes out with such a magnificently comic phrase as ' Since I called upon you that evening when you were , as I may say , floating your powerful mind , in tea , ' we feel that the current of satire ...
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... instance of symbolism from Bleak House is the horrible and fantastic account of the death by spontaneous combustion of the gin - sodden rag - and - bottle collector Krook , who by virtue of his name symbolizes the whole Chancery system ...
... instance of symbolism from Bleak House is the horrible and fantastic account of the death by spontaneous combustion of the gin - sodden rag - and - bottle collector Krook , who by virtue of his name symbolizes the whole Chancery system ...
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