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Page 91
... course of which , Faustlike , he sells himself to the powers of evil , is a statement in fable of the author's own dominant impulses ; in his own actual life Beckford got as near to being a Vathek as the West allowed . Of its kind of ...
... course of which , Faustlike , he sells himself to the powers of evil , is a statement in fable of the author's own dominant impulses ; in his own actual life Beckford got as near to being a Vathek as the West allowed . Of its kind of ...
Page 98
... course , but she does not use them merely for decoration or as backcloths ; they have an emotional relationship to the characters who move through them . Similarly , she incor- porated into her work a sense of history . From the ...
... course , but she does not use them merely for decoration or as backcloths ; they have an emotional relationship to the characters who move through them . Similarly , she incor- porated into her work a sense of history . From the ...
Page 117
... course , in their notions of morals . It is not quite true that for Miss Austen morals and manners are interchange- able , but the main emphasis in her work is on manners , which she sees as morals in microcosm . There are , of course ...
... course , in their notions of morals . It is not quite true that for Miss Austen morals and manners are interchange- able , but the main emphasis in her work is on manners , which she sees as morals in microcosm . There are , of course ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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