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Page 118
... completely detailed a world as has been created in fiction . There is a whole larger world outside it of which she says nothing , but that does not invalidate the world she has made . The scope of her art is not in fact lessened by her ...
... completely detailed a world as has been created in fiction . There is a whole larger world outside it of which she says nothing , but that does not invalidate the world she has made . The scope of her art is not in fact lessened by her ...
Page 177
... completely sure , completely dogmatic . Above all , it is witty . The very structure of his sentences is witty , and his epigrams invite the reader into his confidence : " Although the best of wives and mothers , she had some charity ...
... completely sure , completely dogmatic . Above all , it is witty . The very structure of his sentences is witty , and his epigrams invite the reader into his confidence : " Although the best of wives and mothers , she had some charity ...
Page 382
... completely outside them . His attitude to- wards them is always expository ; he is explaining them , exhibiting them , to an outside world that is not provin- cial . They exist in relation to a larger world that Bennett accepts as the ...
... completely outside them . His attitude to- wards them is always expository ; he is explaining them , exhibiting them , to an outside world that is not provin- cial . They exist in relation to a larger world that Bennett accepts as the ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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