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Page 177
It affects us as Gibbon ' s does , or Macaulay ' s ; it acimits of no hesitations , no
half lights ; it is 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
...
It affects us as Gibbon ' s does , or Macaulay ' s ; it acimits of no hesitations , no
half lights ; it is 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
...
Page 371
Marlow , in Lord Jim , notes of sea captains forced to abandon their ships : “
There was a villainy of circumstance that cut these men off more completely from
the rest of mankind , whose ideal of conduct had never undergone the trial of a ...
Marlow , in Lord Jim , notes of sea captains forced to abandon their ships : “
There was a villainy of circumstance that cut these men off more completely from
the rest of mankind , whose ideal of conduct had never undergone the trial of a ...
Page 438
... is compared with the African carving described in Women in Love of "a woman
sitting naked in a strange posture, and looking tortured, her abdomen stuck out,"
a true symbol for a way of life which can never be completely apprehended.
... is compared with the African carving described in Women in Love of "a woman
sitting naked in a strange posture, and looking tortured, her abdomen stuck out,"
a true symbol for a way of life which can never be completely apprehended.
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
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 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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