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It was never , either aesthetically or morally , a perfect form and its faults and
failures can be quickly enumerated . But its greatness and its practical usefulness
lay in its unremitting work of involving the reader himself in the moral life , inviting
...
It was never , either aesthetically or morally , a perfect form and its faults and
failures can be quickly enumerated . But its greatness and its practical usefulness
lay in its unremitting work of involving the reader himself in the moral life , inviting
...
Page 190
When he comes out with such a magnificently comic phrase as " Since I called
upon you that evening when you were , as I may say , floating your powerful mind
in tea , ” we feel that the current of satire , of moral indignation , has been ...
When he comes out with such a magnificently comic phrase as " Since I called
upon you that evening when you were , as I may say , floating your powerful mind
in tea , ” we feel that the current of satire , of moral indignation , has been ...
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intellectual honesty to a reluctant agnosticism , an agnosticism that laid as
remorseless a stress on morals , on right behavior ... George Eliot ' s moral beliefs
chimed with what appeared to be the findings of contemporary science ,
particularly ...
intellectual honesty to a reluctant agnosticism , an agnosticism that laid as
remorseless a stress on morals , on right behavior ... George Eliot ' s moral beliefs
chimed with what appeared to be the findings of contemporary science ,
particularly ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 24 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1955 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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