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Page 145
... personality : It was strangely warming to be sitting there , in that safe room , as the noise grew . It was like lying in front of the fire as a child , while the wind moaned and the rain thrashed against the win- dows . It gave just ...
... personality : It was strangely warming to be sitting there , in that safe room , as the noise grew . It was like lying in front of the fire as a child , while the wind moaned and the rain thrashed against the win- dows . It gave just ...
Page 146
... personality of the mature Eliot . In Time of Hope Sheila says to the young Eliot , ' You're not as nice as people think you are ' , but one is inclined to reflect that one has very little idea how nice or nasty Eliot in fact is . Snow ...
... personality of the mature Eliot . In Time of Hope Sheila says to the young Eliot , ' You're not as nice as people think you are ' , but one is inclined to reflect that one has very little idea how nice or nasty Eliot in fact is . Snow ...
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... personality that informs it . After several decades of critical emphasis on ' impersonality ' the market for literary biographies is as active as ever . * Part of Booth's problem may be that as a Chicago - trained genre critic he looks ...
... personality that informs it . After several decades of critical emphasis on ' impersonality ' the market for literary biographies is as active as ever . * Part of Booth's problem may be that as a Chicago - trained genre critic he looks ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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