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Page 184
... seems to have been his favorite dramatist . I suspect that he liked them because of their undoubted incidental resemblance to himself as artist , but that they reinforced his own predilections rather than directly influenced him . We ...
... seems to have been his favorite dramatist . I suspect that he liked them because of their undoubted incidental resemblance to himself as artist , but that they reinforced his own predilections rather than directly influenced him . We ...
Page 259
... seems to be a bad mark against her , something in itself reprehensible . George Eliot , we learn from her biographers , was perhaps overconscious of what she construed as her own ugliness , and it some- times appears that in her fiction ...
... seems to be a bad mark against her , something in itself reprehensible . George Eliot , we learn from her biographers , was perhaps overconscious of what she construed as her own ugliness , and it some- times appears that in her fiction ...
Page 412
... seems that no literary form can afford genius of extreme revolutionary talent too often , for the consequence may easily be a temporary shattering of it . Something like this seems to have happened in the novel in our time . None of the ...
... seems that no literary form can afford genius of extreme revolutionary talent too often , for the consequence may easily be a temporary shattering of it . Something like this seems to have happened in the novel in our time . None of the ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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