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Page 164
... later novels as to great poems , for their effect is that of poetry , the poetry , as David Cecil has suggested , of the late Elizabethan drama , the plays of Webster and Ford and Tourneur . As Dickens grew older his mood became darker ...
... later novels as to great poems , for their effect is that of poetry , the poetry , as David Cecil has suggested , of the late Elizabethan drama , the plays of Webster and Ford and Tourneur . As Dickens grew older his mood became darker ...
Page 193
... later . Astringency grew in him , and the early Barset books would be the better for more than they possess . But The Warden is merely the gateway to Barsetshire , and his full powers are not seen until later in the series . The note of ...
... later . Astringency grew in him , and the early Barset books would be the better for more than they possess . But The Warden is merely the gateway to Barsetshire , and his full powers are not seen until later in the series . The note of ...
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... later . None of these works had any influence on George Eliot or Meredith , but looking back , we can see that the English writers belonged to the same broad movement that was shaping the novel anew in Europe ; and henceforward , for ...
... later . None of these works had any influence on George Eliot or Meredith , but looking back , we can see that the English writers belonged to the same broad movement that was shaping the novel anew in Europe ; and henceforward , for ...
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