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Page 21
... scarcely existed . They do not seem to have thought of the past as something unlike the present ; such a notion as the spirit of an age was alien to them . King Lear , for instance , is set in pre - Saxon Britain , Henry IV in ...
... scarcely existed . They do not seem to have thought of the past as something unlike the present ; such a notion as the spirit of an age was alien to them . King Lear , for instance , is set in pre - Saxon Britain , Henry IV in ...
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... scarcely be questioned when one remembers the charac- ters of the novel , those sharp , scathing sketches of the money - conscious , the Veneerings , Podsnap , Fledgeby , the Lammles . Any account of Dickens is inadequate . He is the ...
... scarcely be questioned when one remembers the charac- ters of the novel , those sharp , scathing sketches of the money - conscious , the Veneerings , Podsnap , Fledgeby , the Lammles . Any account of Dickens is inadequate . He is the ...
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... scarcely exists in Hardy . His characters stand in relation to other things , the weather , the seasons , a traditional craft . He sees his characters much as Scott does his , first in their generic aspects : thus , before he is ...
... scarcely exists in Hardy . His characters stand in relation to other things , the weather , the seasons , a traditional craft . He sees his characters much as Scott does his , first in their generic aspects : thus , before he is ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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