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... mind and its develop- ment from those first sentences of baby talk or , rather , of the equivalents of baby thought with which the novel opens . Stephen so much dominates his world as we read that he appears indeed as a sort of Lucifer ...
... mind and its develop- ment from those first sentences of baby talk or , rather , of the equivalents of baby thought with which the novel opens . Stephen so much dominates his world as we read that he appears indeed as a sort of Lucifer ...
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... mind . This is seen at its clearest in the first part of Eustace and Hilda , that wonderfully delicate evoca- tion of the effect of Venice on the young man's awakening mind . One says ' awakening ' because it is the especial ...
... mind . This is seen at its clearest in the first part of Eustace and Hilda , that wonderfully delicate evoca- tion of the effect of Venice on the young man's awakening mind . One says ' awakening ' because it is the especial ...
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... minds are alike or not . ' In fact , at that point Liddell is writing upon I. Compton - Burnett , whose mind he finds in many ways like Jane Austen's . Together , they are Liddell's ideal novelists . Whether his mind is like theirs I ...
... minds are alike or not . ' In fact , at that point Liddell is writing upon I. Compton - Burnett , whose mind he finds in many ways like Jane Austen's . Together , they are Liddell's ideal novelists . Whether his mind is like theirs I ...
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