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Page 57
... scene in Lady Booby's house ... where Beau Didapper steals to Mrs Slipslop's bed in mistake for Fanny's , and Parson Adams , hearing a scream , rushes in the dark to the bedside , where , misled by the feel of the beau's delicate skin ...
... scene in Lady Booby's house ... where Beau Didapper steals to Mrs Slipslop's bed in mistake for Fanny's , and Parson Adams , hearing a scream , rushes in the dark to the bedside , where , misled by the feel of the beau's delicate skin ...
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... scene to contrasted scene . Here is the social life of man : money is made , money is lost ; marriages are contracted , husbands and wives prove no better than they should be ; children disappoint , and are then the stay of their ...
... scene to contrasted scene . Here is the social life of man : money is made , money is lost ; marriages are contracted , husbands and wives prove no better than they should be ; children disappoint , and are then the stay of their ...
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... scene , so poses them , as to persuade us not only of their ordinary reality as lifelike characters but of their symbolic reality . An obvious instance is the method of portraying Nostromo . Just before Decoud , in the passage quoted ...
... scene , so poses them , as to persuade us not only of their ordinary reality as lifelike characters but of their symbolic reality . An obvious instance is the method of portraying Nostromo . Just before Decoud , in the passage quoted ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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