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... things . One says ' things ' because in practice his external approach to human beings led to their being seen as things . In this he is akin to Smollett , whose conception of character - drawing was also derived very consciously from ...
... things . One says ' things ' because in practice his external approach to human beings led to their being seen as things . In this he is akin to Smollett , whose conception of character - drawing was also derived very consciously from ...
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... things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with meat except to bury it . There were many words you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had ...
... things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with meat except to bury it . There were many words you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had ...
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... things , the experience of sight , smell , touch . In A Voice through a Cloud Welch recreates with an equal freshness the life of illness , of the sick man in hospital . In Welch nothing seems to come between the perception and its ...
... things , the experience of sight , smell , touch . In A Voice through a Cloud Welch recreates with an equal freshness the life of illness , of the sick man in hospital . In Welch nothing seems to come between the perception and its ...
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