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Page 105
... less or the atmosphere of persecution - for we are always inside Williams's mind - more claustrophobic . Godwin carried through his project with an intensity of imagina- tion that anticipates Poe . But this is not all . Godwin be ...
... less or the atmosphere of persecution - for we are always inside Williams's mind - more claustrophobic . Godwin carried through his project with an intensity of imagina- tion that anticipates Poe . But this is not all . Godwin be ...
Page 209
... less satirical ; the hu- mor is an expression of love , the love that would not have its object changed however absurd it may seem to the world outside . Mrs. Gaskell is only less successful in Wives and Daugh- ters because she is ...
... less satirical ; the hu- mor is an expression of love , the love that would not have its object changed however absurd it may seem to the world outside . Mrs. Gaskell is only less successful in Wives and Daugh- ters because she is ...
Page 296
... less convincing because , according to the doctor , he is a boy " of a sort unknown in the last generation . the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live . " The philosophical explanation high - lights the sentimen- tality ...
... less convincing because , according to the doctor , he is a boy " of a sort unknown in the last generation . the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live . " The philosophical explanation high - lights the sentimen- tality ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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