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... nature , including therein the forces of his own nature , and man's aspirations there could be no reconciliation ; they were eternally opposed , and from the human view the workings of nature must appear hostile and malign . What Hardy ...
... nature , including therein the forces of his own nature , and man's aspirations there could be no reconciliation ; they were eternally opposed , and from the human view the workings of nature must appear hostile and malign . What Hardy ...
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... nature of things but because Hardy wishes it to be so . It is the one turn of the screw too many . But these failures in the management of his plots matter less in Hardy than they would in any other novelist ; they are botches , but ...
... nature of things but because Hardy wishes it to be so . It is the one turn of the screw too many . But these failures in the management of his plots matter less in Hardy than they would in any other novelist ; they are botches , but ...
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... nature some- thing like a law obliging the artist to a fanatical scrupu- losity , as it were a physical incapacity to depart from nature's truths in exchange for any other . This is as inescapable as the requirements of geometry . The ...
... nature some- thing like a law obliging the artist to a fanatical scrupu- losity , as it were a physical incapacity to depart from nature's truths in exchange for any other . This is as inescapable as the requirements of geometry . The ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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