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Page 227
... tragic story - one says " apparently " because finally the novel is not tragic but something for which we lack a word , though perhaps heroic is the nearest THE EARLY VICTORIANS 227.
... tragic story - one says " apparently " because finally the novel is not tragic but something for which we lack a word , though perhaps heroic is the nearest THE EARLY VICTORIANS 227.
Page 302
... tragic horror , but in Jude everything is subordinated to the depiction of the increas- ingly tragic situation of Jude and Sue . They are described from a much closer range than is usual with Hardy . Jude is the characteristic Hardy ...
... tragic horror , but in Jude everything is subordinated to the depiction of the increas- ingly tragic situation of Jude and Sue . They are described from a much closer range than is usual with Hardy . Jude is the characteristic Hardy ...
Page 384
... tragic level than ever he was to do later . His view of life was not tragic ; it was a stoical acceptance of things as they are , a reluctant conformism . The 384 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
... tragic level than ever he was to do later . His view of life was not tragic ; it was a stoical acceptance of things as they are , a reluctant conformism . The 384 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
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