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... stands out against the plans to stage a play at Mansfield Park while Sir Thomas is away in the West Indies . She has no ... stand for Miss Austen's comedy ; the end of Mans- field Park is prosperous enough , with Fanny married to Edmund ...
... stands out against the plans to stage a play at Mansfield Park while Sir Thomas is away in the West Indies . She has no ... stand for Miss Austen's comedy ; the end of Mans- field Park is prosperous enough , with Fanny married to Edmund ...
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... stand for them all , since she is queen of them all . It is her presence , side by side with the bril- liantly ... stands behind Henry James , with what Stephen Spender has called his " described poetry , " D. H. Law- rence , Virginia ...
... stand for them all , since she is queen of them all . It is her presence , side by side with the bril- liantly ... stands behind Henry James , with what Stephen Spender has called his " described poetry , " D. H. Law- rence , Virginia ...
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... stand or fall by its signifi- cant simplicity . " With this James had no difficulty in agree- ing . Of course , art ... standing for life itself , or of that area of life the novelist has concerned himself with . A good novel is untrue ...
... stand or fall by its signifi- cant simplicity . " With this James had no difficulty in agree- ing . Of course , art ... standing for life itself , or of that area of life the novelist has concerned himself with . A good novel is untrue ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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