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... side by side bound in the one frame . It is the sign that a world has been created and populated . It is also a sign that the author has been much more interested in creating charac- ters than in composing a formal work , which is as ...
... side by side bound in the one frame . It is the sign that a world has been created and populated . It is also a sign that the author has been much more interested in creating charac- ters than in composing a formal work , which is as ...
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... side by side of what Disraeli called the two nations ; and in the forties they feared revolution . The forces set in motion by the industrial revolution they did not know how to con- trol , and the working of what seemed the iron laws ...
... side by side of what Disraeli called the two nations ; and in the forties they feared revolution . The forces set in motion by the industrial revolution they did not know how to con- trol , and the working of what seemed the iron laws ...
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... side by side in peace if the outsider Heathcliff had not been introduced into Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earn- shaw , " the old master . " His history , as Nelly Dean says , is " a cuckoo's . " Yet Nelly is scarcely fair to Heathcliff ...
... side by side in peace if the outsider Heathcliff had not been introduced into Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earn- shaw , " the old master . " His history , as Nelly Dean says , is " a cuckoo's . " Yet Nelly is scarcely fair to Heathcliff ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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