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When he accepts them without intervention of moral scruples, rejoices in them for
their own sake, the result is pure humour: Pickwick, the Wellers, Micawber, Boffin
or, greatest of them all, Mrs Gamp. When sympathy is withheld or he feels a ...
When he accepts them without intervention of moral scruples, rejoices in them for
their own sake, the result is pure humour: Pickwick, the Wellers, Micawber, Boffin
or, greatest of them all, Mrs Gamp. When sympathy is withheld or he feels a ...
Page 161
also exist for their own sake, without reference to moral considerations. Silas
Wegg is an 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 ...
also exist for their own sake, without reference to moral considerations. Silas
Wegg is an 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 ...
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Born in the Established Church, she had become d §. as a girl; essentially
religious, she was brought by her intellectual honesty to a reluctant agnosticism,
an agnosticism that laid as remorseless a stress on morals, on right behaviour, as
had ...
Born in the Established Church, she had become d §. as a girl; essentially
religious, she was brought by her intellectual honesty to a reluctant agnosticism,
an agnosticism that laid as remorseless a stress on morals, on right behaviour, as
had ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Volume 9 of Dutton Paperback: D Pelican books |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Publisher | Phoenix House, 1954 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 16 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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