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Page 195
... symbol of money power is Mr. Dombey himself , to whose pride of position as the British merchant everything must be ... symbol , that of the sea- “ What are the wild waves saying ? " - the symbol of death and also of life and ...
... symbol of money power is Mr. Dombey himself , to whose pride of position as the British merchant everything must be ... symbol , that of the sea- “ What are the wild waves saying ? " - the symbol of death and also of life and ...
Page 404
... symbol always includes the life of impulse , of im- pulse even to brutishness and cruelty . We see this in his first ... symbol of " good - and- evil , " and the symbolism creaks . It does so particularly in the scene in which Gino ...
... symbol always includes the life of impulse , of im- pulse even to brutishness and cruelty . We see this in his first ... symbol of " good - and- evil , " and the symbolism creaks . It does so particularly in the scene in which Gino ...
Page 408
... symbol . What she means cannot be paraphrased , though one might make many guesses about her significance . She is ... symbol works ; the figure of Mrs. Moore broods over the novel , not be- nignly , anything but that , but as a symbol ...
... symbol . What she means cannot be paraphrased , though one might make many guesses about her significance . She is ... symbol works ; the figure of Mrs. Moore broods over the novel , not be- nignly , anything but that , but as a symbol ...
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THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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