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Page 271
... figure ; yet , like Dorothea , he impresses us as a being capable of suffering tragedy , and we are moved to compassion by the sense of waste that informs his being . In the shape of the novel as a whole , the figure of Doro- thea is ...
... figure ; yet , like Dorothea , he impresses us as a being capable of suffering tragedy , and we are moved to compassion by the sense of waste that informs his being . In the shape of the novel as a whole , the figure of Doro- thea is ...
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... figure of Prince Albrecht that was so fine . I had always laughed at sculptured figures on horse - back . This one overawed me . The Marshal was ac- knowledging the salute of his army after a famous victory over the Turks . He sat ...
... figure of Prince Albrecht that was so fine . I had always laughed at sculptured figures on horse - back . This one overawed me . The Marshal was ac- knowledging the salute of his army after a famous victory over the Turks . He sat ...
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... figure of Mrs. Moore , the old English lady on whom India has such a strange effect and who becomes , after she ... figure , older than English and Indian and the strife between them . When Forster attempted through a cognate figure ...
... figure of Mrs. Moore , the old English lady on whom India has such a strange effect and who becomes , after she ... figure , older than English and Indian and the strife between them . When Forster attempted through a cognate figure ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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