Romantic Professions: And Other PapersE. Mathews & J. Lane, 1894 - 225 страници |
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... feel pretty confident that the records of authoritative romance might be searched in vain for a precedent . The American moralist must not however run away with the idea that herein this respectable profession labours under an ...
... feel pretty confident that the records of authoritative romance might be searched in vain for a precedent . The American moralist must not however run away with the idea that herein this respectable profession labours under an ...
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... feeling of his business that he sang at grave - making , custom having made it in him , as Horatio explained , a property of easiness . We have noted an example of the dramatic value of a métier in Dickens's dolls ' dressmaker , and M ...
... feeling of his business that he sang at grave - making , custom having made it in him , as Horatio explained , a property of easiness . We have noted an example of the dramatic value of a métier in Dickens's dolls ' dressmaker , and M ...
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... feeling . Among Mary Bold's lovers the outrageous Bertie Stanhope is a relief by contrast with his clerical rivals , the too academic Arabin and the unspeakable Slope . The disability extends beyond the strict bounds of clericalism . 25 ...
... feeling . Among Mary Bold's lovers the outrageous Bertie Stanhope is a relief by contrast with his clerical rivals , the too academic Arabin and the unspeakable Slope . The disability extends beyond the strict bounds of clericalism . 25 ...
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... unworthiness and with a ' quickened sense of the compass of human feeling ' from having once known a simple , noble Christian gentleman , Mr. Smith . Most novels , like this one , naturally derive their H 113 ON THE NAMING OF NOVELS.
... unworthiness and with a ' quickened sense of the compass of human feeling ' from having once known a simple , noble Christian gentleman , Mr. Smith . Most novels , like this one , naturally derive their H 113 ON THE NAMING OF NOVELS.
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... Wakefield and the Man of Feeling . The proper names are amplified with expository phrases such as The Personal History , The Life and Adventures , and so forth ; a fashion to which Dickens returned , perhaps 114 ON THE NAMING OF NOVELS.
... Wakefield and the Man of Feeling . The proper names are amplified with expository phrases such as The Personal History , The Life and Adventures , and so forth ; a fashion to which Dickens returned , perhaps 114 ON THE NAMING OF NOVELS.
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