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Page 166
But here he is: . . . a thin, shambling personage, apparently about twenty years
old—a pale, cadaverous face, high cheek-bones, goggle eyes, with lank hair very
thinly sown upon a head, which, like bad soil, would return but a scanty harvest.
But here he is: . . . a thin, shambling personage, apparently about twenty years
old—a pale, cadaverous face, high cheek-bones, goggle eyes, with lank hair very
thinly sown upon a head, which, like bad soil, would return but a scanty harvest.
Page 184
... in the Jonsonian sense. Santayana, in his fine essay on Dickens in Soliloquies
in England, has partly answered the charge that Dickens deals in caricatures:
When people say Dickens exaggerates, it seems to me they can have no eyes ...
... in the Jonsonian sense. Santayana, in his fine essay on Dickens in Soliloquies
in England, has partly answered the charge that Dickens deals in caricatures:
When people say Dickens exaggerates, it seems to me they can have no eyes ...
Page 419
Mrs. Dalloway raised her hand to her eyes, and, as the maid shut the door to, and
she heard the swish of Lucy's skirts, she felt like a nun who has left the world and
feels fold round her the familiar veils and the response to old devotions.
Mrs. Dalloway raised her hand to her eyes, and, as the maid shut the door to, and
she heard the swish of Lucy's skirts, she felt like a nun who has left the world and
feels fold round her the familiar veils and the response to old devotions.
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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