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Page 70
... humor with which Matthew is presented gives him the extra dimension of life that we miss in the characters of his earlier novels . So , with his cortege , he travels through England , from Gloucester through Bath and Clifton to London ...
... humor with which Matthew is presented gives him the extra dimension of life that we miss in the characters of his earlier novels . So , with his cortege , he travels through England , from Gloucester through Bath and Clifton to London ...
Page 164
... humor of the book lies in the contrast between the world as it is and as it imposes itself on the boy's naivety . This humor , of course , is often of a very simple kind , as when the other midshipmen scare Peter , on his joining his ...
... humor of the book lies in the contrast between the world as it is and as it imposes itself on the boy's naivety . This humor , of course , is often of a very simple kind , as when the other midshipmen scare Peter , on his joining his ...
Page 189
... humor : Pick- wick , the Wellers , Micawber , Boffin , or , greatest of them all , Mrs. Gamp . When sympathy is withheld or he feels a strong moral disgust or contempt , the result is a character not so much of humor as of savage comedy ...
... humor : Pick- wick , the Wellers , Micawber , Boffin , or , greatest of them all , Mrs. Gamp . When sympathy is withheld or he feels a strong moral disgust or contempt , the result is a character not so much of humor as of savage comedy ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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