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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 250
... seems so to construct his that he not only , before writing , plans everything on paper , down to the minutest detail , from the beginning to the end ; but then plots it all back again , to see that there is no piece of necessary dove ...
... seems so to construct his that he not only , before writing , plans everything on paper , down to the minutest detail , from the beginning to the end ; but then plots it all back again , to see that there is no piece of necessary dove ...
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 ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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