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Page 157
... Scarcely ever are they ordinary ; the very notion of the ordinary is foreign to the child , to whom everyone encountered is unique . When people have very powerfully impressed us in child- hood they remain for ever so fixed in the ...
... Scarcely ever are they ordinary ; the very notion of the ordinary is foreign to the child , to whom everyone encountered is unique . When people have very powerfully impressed us in child- hood they remain for ever so fixed in the ...
Page 166
... scarcely be questioned when one remembers the charac- ters of the novel , those sharp , scathing sketches of the money - conscious , the Veneerings , Podsnap , Fledgeby , the Lammles . Any account of Dickens is inadequate . He is the ...
... scarcely be questioned when one remembers the charac- ters of the novel , those sharp , scathing sketches of the money - conscious , the Veneerings , Podsnap , Fledgeby , the Lammles . Any account of Dickens is inadequate . He is the ...
Page 311
... scarcely possible that she should , presented as she is through the minds of the Forsytes , since they are , by definition , characters which do not possess the kind of mind through which beauty can be vividly realized . Irene exists as ...
... scarcely possible that she should , presented as she is through the minds of the Forsytes , since they are , by definition , characters which do not possess the kind of mind through which beauty can be vividly realized . Irene exists as ...
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