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... expression sanctioned by his inherited culture : allegory ' . Professor Hoffman goes on : As the faith which had sustained Puritan allegory withered or was transformed , as the supernatural certainties to which allegory anchored the ...
... expression sanctioned by his inherited culture : allegory ' . Professor Hoffman goes on : As the faith which had sustained Puritan allegory withered or was transformed , as the supernatural certainties to which allegory anchored the ...
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... expression . Its nature makes Firbank , at first sight , a marginal figure in the history of recent fiction ; yet , when we look closer and look at him in the context of his time , of the nineties in which he grew up and the decade from ...
... expression . Its nature makes Firbank , at first sight , a marginal figure in the history of recent fiction ; yet , when we look closer and look at him in the context of his time , of the nineties in which he grew up and the decade from ...
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... expression in vain . We had heard them , some- times standing in the rain almost out of earshot , so that only the shouted words came through , and had read them , on proclama- tions that were slapped up by billposters over other ...
... expression in vain . We had heard them , some- times standing in the rain almost out of earshot , so that only the shouted words came through , and had read them , on proclama- tions that were slapped up by billposters over other ...
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