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Page 38
... passage , which Coleridge acclaimed as ' worthy of Shakespeare ' , as : I smil❜d to myself at the sight of this money : ' O drug ! ' said I aloud .... However , upon second thoughts , I took it away ; and wrapping all this in a piece ...
... passage , which Coleridge acclaimed as ' worthy of Shakespeare ' , as : I smil❜d to myself at the sight of this money : ' O drug ! ' said I aloud .... However , upon second thoughts , I took it away ; and wrapping all this in a piece ...
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... Passage to India , when the echo murmurs to her : ' Pathos , piety , courage they exist , but are identical , and so is filth . Everything exists , nothing has value . ' If one had spoken vileness in that place , or quoted lofty poetry ...
... Passage to India , when the echo murmurs to her : ' Pathos , piety , courage they exist , but are identical , and so is filth . Everything exists , nothing has value . ' If one had spoken vileness in that place , or quoted lofty poetry ...
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... Passage to India is a superb realistic novel , and its conclusion , with Aziz and Fielding meeting on horse - back in a native state years after Aziz's trial , is what the facts of the novel dictate : ' Why can't we be friends now ...
... Passage to India is a superb realistic novel , and its conclusion , with Aziz and Fielding meeting on horse - back in a native state years after Aziz's trial , is what the facts of the novel dictate : ' Why can't we be friends now ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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