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... represents Richardson's ideal of manly virtue as Pamela his ideal of female virtue . It was a deliberate attempt to ... represent is a series of variations on the theme of his goodness . Faced with so formidable a literary innovator as ...
... represents Richardson's ideal of manly virtue as Pamela his ideal of female virtue . It was a deliberate attempt to ... represent is a series of variations on the theme of his goodness . Faced with so formidable a literary innovator as ...
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... represents drags classes higher , as well as lower , than his own into his orbit : he can buy an aristocratic young woman as his second wife . But Dombey , though he does not know it , himself represents a form of power in its ...
... represents drags classes higher , as well as lower , than his own into his orbit : he can buy an aristocratic young woman as his second wife . But Dombey , though he does not know it , himself represents a form of power in its ...
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... represents . One can't say such novels would not have been written except for Butler's example : they include ... represented as the Rev. THE NOVEL FROM 1881 TO 1914 287.
... represents . One can't say such novels would not have been written except for Butler's example : they include ... represented as the Rev. THE NOVEL FROM 1881 TO 1914 287.
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