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... expression of character . His sentimentality has been found by many critics as offensive as his indecency ; along with his humour , it is part and parcel of his way of interpreting life , and the three cannot really be divorced from one ...
... expression of character . His sentimentality has been found by many critics as offensive as his indecency ; along with his humour , it is part and parcel of his way of interpreting life , and the three cannot really be divorced from one ...
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... expression of a stoicism that would be the deepest pessimism were it not for its author's almost despairing Christianity , for Johnson , who did not know the word , knew at first hand the terrors of the concept Angst . The angst ...
... expression of a stoicism that would be the deepest pessimism were it not for its author's almost despairing Christianity , for Johnson , who did not know the word , knew at first hand the terrors of the concept Angst . The angst ...
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... expression in Cowper's poem The Task . Jane Austen's novels had reinforced it ; and it is amusing to reflect that the Prince Regent , who admired her work so much , should have strengthened its appeal by the disreput- ableness of his ...
... expression in Cowper's poem The Task . Jane Austen's novels had reinforced it ; and it is amusing to reflect that the Prince Regent , who admired her work so much , should have strengthened its appeal by the disreput- ableness of his ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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