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Page 154
... perhaps the public sense of the possibility of further Immortals ; at any rate , Meredith , for all his great reputation and his enormous influence at the end of his life , was always a small seller , Hardy so outraged the conventional ...
... perhaps the public sense of the possibility of further Immortals ; at any rate , Meredith , for all his great reputation and his enormous influence at the end of his life , was always a small seller , Hardy so outraged the conventional ...
Page 240
... Perhaps he is only dubi- ously a novelist , but he has survived better than most . His first book , Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities ( 1838 ) , was a re- printing of sketches contributed to the New Sporting Magazine , of which he was ...
... Perhaps he is only dubi- ously a novelist , but he has survived better than most . His first book , Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities ( 1838 ) , was a re- printing of sketches contributed to the New Sporting Magazine , of which he was ...
Page 396
... perhaps in character , for his deterioration ? What is the truth about Dowell him- self , whose life is one long meaningless self - sacrifice ? We do not know the answers , do not attain to full knowledge of the characters and the ...
... perhaps in character , for his deterioration ? What is the truth about Dowell him- self , whose life is one long meaningless self - sacrifice ? We do not know the answers , do not attain to full knowledge of the characters and the ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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