Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 149
... Adolphe and Ellénore . Here we come to what sets Adolphe among the supreme master- pieces of fiction , to what ... Adolphe's tragedy is in a sense a particular one ; it is largely due to that peculiar weakness of will , which is ...
... Adolphe and Ellénore . Here we come to what sets Adolphe among the supreme master- pieces of fiction , to what ... Adolphe's tragedy is in a sense a particular one ; it is largely due to that peculiar weakness of will , which is ...
Page 150
... Adolphe . For one thing , few people are capable of loving with the obsessing intensity of Ellénore . For another ... Adolphe's weakness is also the tragedy of all unequal love . As But even when we have said this , we wonder if we ...
... Adolphe . For one thing , few people are capable of loving with the obsessing intensity of Ellénore . For another ... Adolphe's weakness is also the tragedy of all unequal love . As But even when we have said this , we wonder if we ...
Page 151
... Adolphe , as he watches Ellénore receive the last rites of the church on her death - bed . " On my knees in ... Adolphe's helplessness is revealed to us as only one example of that helplessness which is the common characteristic ...
... Adolphe , as he watches Ellénore receive the last rites of the church on her death - bed . " On my knees in ... Adolphe's helplessness is revealed to us as only one example of that helplessness which is the common characteristic ...
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