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Page 73
... thought was an arbitrary convention : life at the moment it is being lived , he might have said , does not at all resemble life as it is generalized after the moment has passed . The action of a Fielding novel has finished before the ...
... thought was an arbitrary convention : life at the moment it is being lived , he might have said , does not at all resemble life as it is generalized after the moment has passed . The action of a Fielding novel has finished before the ...
Page 88
... thought he got from Shakespeare was the contrast , making for pathos , between the sublime ' of princes and heroes ' and the naïveté of ' their domestics ' . Walpole was after that mixture of tragedy and comedy within the same work ...
... thought he got from Shakespeare was the contrast , making for pathos , between the sublime ' of princes and heroes ' and the naïveté of ' their domestics ' . Walpole was after that mixture of tragedy and comedy within the same work ...
Page 334
... thought ( as if some lovely rose had blossomed for her eyes alone ) ; not for a moment did she believe in God ; but all the more , she thought , taking up the pad , must one repay in daily life to servants , yes , to dogs and canaries ...
... thought ( as if some lovely rose had blossomed for her eyes alone ) ; not for a moment did she believe in God ; but all the more , she thought , taking up the pad , must one repay in daily life to servants , yes , to dogs and canaries ...
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