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... seen as a being at once inferior and superior to the male of the species , but equal never . The mainspring of her life , unless con- science is outraged , is a gracious obedience . This is to say that Field- ing's conception of the ...
... seen as a being at once inferior and superior to the male of the species , but equal never . The mainspring of her life , unless con- science is outraged , is a gracious obedience . This is to say that Field- ing's conception of the ...
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... seen again . The second part consists of his own confession , an astonishing self - exposure of religious aberration and delusion . It seems to me quite certain that Hogg conceived his novel as satire ; his own point of view is made ...
... seen again . The second part consists of his own confession , an astonishing self - exposure of religious aberration and delusion . It seems to me quite certain that Hogg conceived his novel as satire ; his own point of view is made ...
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... seen at her greatest in Middlemarch . Not all her qualities are manifest in it ; it lacks the charm of the first part of The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner , and the humour is much more severely controlled . But it expresses , as ...
... seen at her greatest in Middlemarch . Not all her qualities are manifest in it ; it lacks the charm of the first part of The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner , and the humour is much more severely controlled . But it expresses , as ...
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