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Page 231
... realizes , very much in the tradition of Scottish backbiting and sardonic satire ; but , much more important , it enables Gibbon , without sacri- ficing the unity of the whole , to show us the whole action from a multiplicity of points ...
... realizes , very much in the tradition of Scottish backbiting and sardonic satire ; but , much more important , it enables Gibbon , without sacri- ficing the unity of the whole , to show us the whole action from a multiplicity of points ...
Page 324
... realizes : ' Admittedly , like others , he had been in the wrong ... Everybody committed errors and offences . But it was supremely plain to him that everything , without exception , took place as if within a single soul or person ...
... realizes : ' Admittedly , like others , he had been in the wrong ... Everybody committed errors and offences . But it was supremely plain to him that everything , without exception , took place as if within a single soul or person ...
Page 331
... realizes all he has done for her and her family , realizes , too , the confused nature of good and evil , and thanks him . Next night he overhears her refusing a com- paratively wealthy suitor . He stays on in the grocer's shop and a ...
... realizes all he has done for her and her family , realizes , too , the confused nature of good and evil , and thanks him . Next night he overhears her refusing a com- paratively wealthy suitor . He stays on in the grocer's shop and a ...
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British I | 11 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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