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Page 118
... passion - surely passion is lowbrow enough , and think how all Scott's laborious mountains and scooped - out glens and carefully ruined abbeys call out for passion , passion , and how it is never there ! If he had passion he would be a ...
... passion - surely passion is lowbrow enough , and think how all Scott's laborious mountains and scooped - out glens and carefully ruined abbeys call out for passion , passion , and how it is never there ! If he had passion he would be a ...
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... passion , the passion of the self- absorbed , the crank . For the moment , Peacock has become the crank in question , Mr Escot , Mr Flosky . He has apprehended the essence of a theory , a dogmatic point of view , and it is as though the ...
... passion , the passion of the self- absorbed , the crank . For the moment , Peacock has become the crank in question , Mr Escot , Mr Flosky . He has apprehended the essence of a theory , a dogmatic point of view , and it is as though the ...
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... passion with which she is conceived but also because of the magnitude of the conception . Writing on St Theresa in the prelude to the novel , George Eliot says : That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago , was certainly not ...
... passion with which she is conceived but also because of the magnitude of the conception . Writing on St Theresa in the prelude to the novel , George Eliot says : That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago , was certainly not ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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