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Page 60
... observer , and it is hard not to use such phrases without an implied sneer or note of condemnation . Yet this is not at all my intention ; I should like , rather , to maintain a difficult balance between the position that unthinkingly ...
... observer , and it is hard not to use such phrases without an implied sneer or note of condemnation . Yet this is not at all my intention ; I should like , rather , to maintain a difficult balance between the position that unthinkingly ...
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... observer of a comic order , seems unable to respond at all to the private and public tragedies that represent the intrusion of time and history into the closed world of the dance . Unless , of course , the apparent refusal or inability ...
... observer of a comic order , seems unable to respond at all to the private and public tragedies that represent the intrusion of time and history into the closed world of the dance . Unless , of course , the apparent refusal or inability ...
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... observer , a collector , even , as with the case of Trollope , a giant hewing out chunks of reality . Yet he could safely remain apart from his material , secure in the knowledge that the fictional enterprise had generated enough ...
... observer , a collector , even , as with the case of Trollope , a giant hewing out chunks of reality . Yet he could safely remain apart from his material , secure in the knowledge that the fictional enterprise had generated enough ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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