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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 of the influence of Rousseau's Émile in English , it is a treatise on education cast into fictional form . It describes the upbringing of little Harry Morland , who becomes the ideal nobleman through the fostering , by his ...
... instance of the influence of Rousseau's Émile in English , it is a treatise on education cast into fictional form . It describes the upbringing of little Harry Morland , who becomes the ideal nobleman through the fostering , by his ...
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... instance , or Carker in the same novel , or Headstone in Our Mutual Friend , Dickens is con- centrating so exclusively on the obsessional element in be- havior that he is inventing characters that we should to- day call psychopaths ...
... instance , or Carker in the same novel , or Headstone in Our Mutual Friend , Dickens is con- centrating so exclusively on the obsessional element in be- havior that he is inventing characters that we should to- day call psychopaths ...
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THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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