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... instance . Wordsworth's aim there was certainly not solely to create beauty ; he was con- cerned just as much with making statements about a num- ber of things of great importance to himself ; about growing old , about growing up , and ...
... instance . Wordsworth's aim there was certainly not solely to create beauty ; he was con- cerned just as much with making statements about a num- ber of things of great importance to himself ; about growing old , about growing up , and ...
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... instance , or the foppish Captain Whiffle , are not ; they are , as it were , flung at the reader in terms of the most ferocious comedy . However perfunctory his attention to plot , no one ever wrote better narrative than Smollett . The ...
... instance , or the foppish Captain Whiffle , are not ; they are , as it were , flung at the reader in terms of the most ferocious comedy . However perfunctory his attention to plot , no one ever wrote better narrative than Smollett . The ...
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... instance . It is the law of Peacock's being . In all the speeches of his char- acters , however absurd they may be , there is a kind of pas- sion , the passion of the self - absorbed , the crank . For the moment , Peacock has become the ...
... instance . It is the law of Peacock's being . In all the speeches of his char- acters , however absurd they may be , there is a kind of pas- sion , the passion of the self - absorbed , the crank . For the moment , Peacock has become the ...
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THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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