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Page 112
... passion - surely passion is low- brow enough , and think how all Scott's laborious mountains and scooped - out glens and carefully ruined abbeys call out for passion , passion , and how it is never there ! If he had passion he would be ...
... passion - surely passion is low- brow enough , and think how all Scott's laborious mountains and scooped - out glens and carefully ruined abbeys call out for passion , passion , and how it is never there ! If he had passion he would be ...
Page 130
... passion , the passion of the self - absorbed , the crank . For the moment , Peacock has become the crank in question , Mr Escot , Mr Flosky . He has apprehended the essence of a theory , a dogmatic point of view , and it is as though ...
... passion , the passion of the self - absorbed , the crank . For the moment , Peacock has become the crank in question , Mr Escot , Mr Flosky . He has apprehended the essence of a theory , a dogmatic point of view , and it is as though ...
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... passion enters the novel . Before her , the treatment of sexual love had been of two kinds ; as a scarcely tempestuous affection between man and wife on the one hand and as a healthy animal sensuality , such as we find in Tom Jones , on ...
... passion enters the novel . Before her , the treatment of sexual love had been of two kinds ; as a scarcely tempestuous affection between man and wife on the one hand and as a healthy animal sensuality , such as we find in Tom Jones , on ...
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