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Page 101
... better go . " And I'd desire no better than that she would take me at my word , for my Lady Dashfort's is a much better place , I'm told , and she's dying to have me , I know . ' In such a soliloquy as this we are not far away from the ...
... better go . " And I'd desire no better than that she would take me at my word , for my Lady Dashfort's is a much better place , I'm told , and she's dying to have me , I know . ' In such a soliloquy as this we are not far away from the ...
Page 193
... better novelist the more he wrote ; or rather , the more he wrote the more he surmounted certain of his weaknesses . Perched as he is on the edge of the over - pathetic , Mr Harding is a very considerable achievement ; yet he is ...
... better novelist the more he wrote ; or rather , the more he wrote the more he surmounted certain of his weaknesses . Perched as he is on the edge of the over - pathetic , Mr Harding is a very considerable achievement ; yet he is ...
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... better than some of the episodes in the Barchester novels ; but the best of the political novels and those roughly related to them are , as a whole , superior to the Barchester books because there is , in the later novels , a much ...
... better than some of the episodes in the Barchester novels ; but the best of the political novels and those roughly related to them are , as a whole , superior to the Barchester books because there is , in the later novels , a much ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
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