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... kind . Young men of noble birth are shipwrecked among shepherds and shepherdesses in a vaguely ancient - Greek landscape ; the course of the action always includes mis- taken identity and love which , however hopeless it may seem , is ...
... kind . Young men of noble birth are shipwrecked among shepherds and shepherdesses in a vaguely ancient - Greek landscape ; the course of the action always includes mis- taken identity and love which , however hopeless it may seem , is ...
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... kind of pas- sion , the passion of the self - absorbed , the crank . For the moment , Peacock has become the crank in question , Mr. Escot , Mr. Flosky . He has apprehended the essence of a theory , a dogmatic point of view , and it is ...
... kind of pas- sion , the passion of the self - absorbed , the crank . For the moment , Peacock has become the crank in question , Mr. Escot , Mr. Flosky . He has apprehended the essence of a theory , a dogmatic point of view , and it is ...
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... kind , but it is not Hardy's kind . It is , if such a thing is possible , a limited universality , true for a certain kind of community at a certain point in time , a picture of life not only in the Five Towns but in any industrial ...
... kind , but it is not Hardy's kind . It is , if such a thing is possible , a limited universality , true for a certain kind of community at a certain point in time , a picture of life not only in the Five Towns but in any industrial ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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