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Page 178
... become a poli- tician before he could become a novelist . But within his limitations he grasped and expressed the essential situation of his times with a boldness beyond that of much greater novelists . 2 " That Dickens was a great ...
... become a poli- tician before he could become a novelist . But within his limitations he grasped and expressed the essential situation of his times with a boldness beyond that of much greater novelists . 2 " That Dickens was a great ...
Page 183
... become nightmare ; the bad fairies are merely absurd no longer ; they have become ogres . " Make ' em laugh , make ' em cry . . . " In Oliver Twist the emphasis is wholly on the second precept of the for- mula . There is laughter , but ...
... become nightmare ; the bad fairies are merely absurd no longer ; they have become ogres . " Make ' em laugh , make ' em cry . . . " In Oliver Twist the emphasis is wholly on the second precept of the for- mula . There is laughter , but ...
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... become momentarily blurred , the grand style falls into rhetoric . It is from about 1910 onwards that Con- rad gives way to rhetoric , the tragic vision having departed . " There seems to have been within him , " Douglas Hewitt has said ...
... become momentarily blurred , the grand style falls into rhetoric . It is from about 1910 onwards that Con- rad gives way to rhetoric , the tragic vision having departed . " There seems to have been within him , " Douglas Hewitt has said ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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