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These statements exist in the form they do , move us as they do , because they
are made poetically . The poem is an entity , a thing in itself , an end in itself . The
pleasure we get from it comes from the fact that it is as it is ; if it were something ...
These statements exist in the form they do , move us as they do , because they
are made poetically . The poem is an entity , a thing in itself , an end in itself . The
pleasure we get from it comes from the fact that it is as it is ; if it were something ...
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Had she allowed them to exist in dependently of her all the time she would truly
have been a great novelist . There is Lady Clonbrony , for instance , an object of
contempt to her guests , an object of pity to her son ; she has dedicated her life ...
Had she allowed them to exist in dependently of her all the time she would truly
have been a great novelist . There is Lady Clonbrony , for instance , an object of
contempt to her guests , an object of pity to her son ; she has dedicated her life ...
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as living beings outside the contexts in which they exist . Peacock keeps them ...
One at least , Dr . Folliott in Crotchet Castle , we can imagine in any conceivable
situation : he is full length and exists in the round . As a character , he is a ...
as living beings outside the contexts in which they exist . Peacock keeps them ...
One at least , Dr . Folliott in Crotchet Castle , we can imagine in any conceivable
situation : he is full length and exists in the round . As a character , he is a ...
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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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