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... beauty led her to eschew " many human interests . " She satisfies our curiosity about life completely - about the life she is prepared to describe for us , which is as much as we may ask of any novelist . We should be silly to blame ...
... beauty led her to eschew " many human interests . " She satisfies our curiosity about life completely - about the life she is prepared to describe for us , which is as much as we may ask of any novelist . We should be silly to blame ...
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... beauty in its own right . For Peacock was always a poet , and he is never more a poet than in his satirical novels . It is sometimes debated whether he was a romantic . The question gets us nowhere . What he had was an exquisite sense ...
... beauty in its own right . For Peacock was always a poet , and he is never more a poet than in his satirical novels . It is sometimes debated whether he was a romantic . The question gets us nowhere . What he had was an exquisite sense ...
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... Beauty effects in the lives of men . The figure of Irene , never present except through the sense of the other characters , is a concretion of disturbing beauty impinging on a possessive world . But as a symbol of beauty and its ...
... Beauty effects in the lives of men . The figure of Irene , never present except through the sense of the other characters , is a concretion of disturbing beauty impinging on a possessive world . But as a symbol of beauty and its ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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