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... whole heart , and a little more than your whole strength . Thus is a natural aptitude for virtue increased by everyday practice . For changing a jib in a stiff breeze is a micro- cosm , as it were , of saving the ship in a storm . So ...
... whole heart , and a little more than your whole strength . Thus is a natural aptitude for virtue increased by everyday practice . For changing a jib in a stiff breeze is a micro- cosm , as it were , of saving the ship in a storm . So ...
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... whole teeming city of New York , which is rendered impressionistically , almost in terms of Imagist poetry : Three gulls wheel above the broken boxes , orangerinds , spoiled cabbage heads that heave between the splintered plank walls ...
... whole teeming city of New York , which is rendered impressionistically , almost in terms of Imagist poetry : Three gulls wheel above the broken boxes , orangerinds , spoiled cabbage heads that heave between the splintered plank walls ...
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... whole , seeing sufficient of it to stand for the whole . She persuades us of this by the sobriety of her realism , her ability to render specific places and their inhabitants , by her sure grasp of her characters , who are many and ...
... whole , seeing sufficient of it to stand for the whole . She persuades us of this by the sobriety of her realism , her ability to render specific places and their inhabitants , by her sure grasp of her characters , who are many and ...
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British I | 11 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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