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Godwin carried through his project with an intensity of imagination that
anticipates Poe . But this is not all . Godwin believed he was presenting in
symbolic terms the relation between government and those who incur the enmity
of government .
Godwin carried through his project with an intensity of imagination that
anticipates Poe . But this is not all . Godwin believed he was presenting in
symbolic terms the relation between government and those who incur the enmity
of government .
Page 108
but because it was a romantic one . Maria Edgeworth gave fiction a local
habitation and a name . And she did more than this : she perceived the relation
between the local habitation and the people who dwell in it . She invented , in
other words ...
but because it was a romantic one . Maria Edgeworth gave fiction a local
habitation and a name . And she did more than this : she perceived the relation
between the local habitation and the people who dwell in it . She invented , in
other words ...
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without the sense of an audience in intimate relation with him he was less than
himself . His public readings have been deplored , but they indicate the intensity
of his craving for what was almost a symbiotic relation with his public . It was one
...
without the sense of an audience in intimate relation with him he was less than
himself . His public readings have been deplored , but they indicate the intensity
of his craving for what was almost a symbiotic relation with his public . It was one
...
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THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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