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Page 156
... achievement was the universal acceptance of the idea of respectability . It was a great achievement , no matter how dingy may be our present associations with the word- lace curtains , aspidistras , and a prudential self - regarding ...
... achievement was the universal acceptance of the idea of respectability . It was a great achievement , no matter how dingy may be our present associations with the word- lace curtains , aspidistras , and a prudential self - regarding ...
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... achievement , but for all that , Esmond never suggests what it sets out to be , an eighteenth - cen- tury work written by a man who is an elderly contemporary of Fielding and Smollett . It is thoroughly mid - nineteenth century in ...
... achievement , but for all that , Esmond never suggests what it sets out to be , an eighteenth - cen- tury work written by a man who is an elderly contemporary of Fielding and Smollett . It is thoroughly mid - nineteenth century in ...
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... achievement ; yet he is conceived in too much sweetness , and so is Elea- nor Bold . Trollope was not a sentimental ... achievements are Archdeacon Grantley and Bertie Stanhope . In them , and in the Archdeacon especially , we encounter ...
... achievement ; yet he is conceived in too much sweetness , and so is Elea- nor Bold . Trollope was not a sentimental ... achievements are Archdeacon Grantley and Bertie Stanhope . In them , and in the Archdeacon especially , we encounter ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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