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Page 105
... Brideshead , when we are reminded of a lamen- tation in the traditional liturgy of Holy Week , Quomodo sedet sola civitas - ' How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people ' - which echoes the decline of Brideshead Castle and ...
... Brideshead , when we are reminded of a lamen- tation in the traditional liturgy of Holy Week , Quomodo sedet sola civitas - ' How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people ' - which echoes the decline of Brideshead Castle and ...
Page 110
... Brideshead itself : Charles and Julia are being divorced from their respective partners and intend to marry as soon as they can ; while the dying Lord Marchmain , disgusted by his son Brideshead's unfortunate marriage , is bequeathing ...
... Brideshead itself : Charles and Julia are being divorced from their respective partners and intend to marry as soon as they can ; while the dying Lord Marchmain , disgusted by his son Brideshead's unfortunate marriage , is bequeathing ...
Page 112
... Brideshead with the Oxford of the opening chapter of Decline and Fall . ) - In Brideshead Revisited the tendency to myth - making , first evident in A Handful of Dust , becomes total and all - embracing . And reading Brideshead we have ...
... Brideshead with the Oxford of the opening chapter of Decline and Fall . ) - In Brideshead Revisited the tendency to myth - making , first evident in A Handful of Dust , becomes total and all - embracing . And reading Brideshead we have ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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