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Page 222
... mean notion of social behaviour . Rosamond is adamant in her idea of what is owing to her . But the frustration of Lydgate's ambitions is not by any means due wholly to the spots of commonness of which his disastrous marriage is a ...
... mean notion of social behaviour . Rosamond is adamant in her idea of what is owing to her . But the frustration of Lydgate's ambitions is not by any means due wholly to the spots of commonness of which his disastrous marriage is a ...
Page 247
... mean by the attitude of apology , and it shocks me every whit as much in Trollope as it would have shocked me in Gibbon or ... means what he says . He has just been describing the novel as history : " That is the only general description ...
... mean by the attitude of apology , and it shocks me every whit as much in Trollope as it would have shocked me in Gibbon or ... means what he says . He has just been describing the novel as history : " That is the only general description ...
Page 291
... means to tear out of him his hope and his fear , the pain of his fatigue and his longing for rest : which means to smash , to destroy , to annihilate all he has seen , known , loved , enjoyed , or hated ; all that is priceless and ...
... means to tear out of him his hope and his fear , the pain of his fatigue and his longing for rest : which means to smash , to destroy , to annihilate all he has seen , known , loved , enjoyed , or hated ; all that is priceless and ...
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