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... playing than a child can . And there is this further to be noted . The child cannot help but play , but how he plays is not under his conscious control , a fact made use of by psychiatrists in the psychological analysis of children . In ...
... playing than a child can . And there is this further to be noted . The child cannot help but play , but how he plays is not under his conscious control , a fact made use of by psychiatrists in the psychological analysis of children . In ...
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... play in English from which anyone could possibly have prophesied the magnificent outburst of Marlowe and Kyd and the ... plays and miracle plays or the Senecan tragedies of Sir Thomas Sackville . The change from THE BEGINNINGS.
... play in English from which anyone could possibly have prophesied the magnificent outburst of Marlowe and Kyd and the ... plays and miracle plays or the Senecan tragedies of Sir Thomas Sackville . The change from THE BEGINNINGS.
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... play at Mansfield Park while Sir Thomas is away in the West Indies . She has no power to prevent their being put into effect , but her right principles on this subject are themselves enough to expose the pretensions of her odious Aunt ...
... play at Mansfield Park while Sir Thomas is away in the West Indies . She has no power to prevent their being put into effect , but her right principles on this subject are themselves enough to expose the pretensions of her odious Aunt ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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