Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 103
... Jane Austen is as artful in avoiding the occasion for them as in everything else . She traces brilliantly the effect of emotion , the way it heats a situation , modifies character ; but she expresses it only by ... JANE AUSTEN 103.
... Jane Austen is as artful in avoiding the occasion for them as in everything else . She traces brilliantly the effect of emotion , the way it heats a situation , modifies character ; but she expresses it only by ... JANE AUSTEN 103.
Page 110
... Jane Austen's view rendered less fundamental by the fact that she shows him as a rule not in moments of crisis but ... Jane Austen had . Her eye for the surface of personality is unerring . Not Dickens himself can visualise outward ...
... Jane Austen's view rendered less fundamental by the fact that she shows him as a rule not in moments of crisis but ... Jane Austen had . Her eye for the surface of personality is unerring . Not Dickens himself can visualise outward ...
Page 113
... Jane Austen's particular merits , her impartiality . It is the most important consequence of her consistently ironical attitude that she never ... Jane Austen's range of character is very large . She painted on JANE AUSTEN 113.
... Jane Austen's particular merits , her impartiality . It is the most important consequence of her consistently ironical attitude that she never ... Jane Austen's range of character is very large . She painted on JANE AUSTEN 113.
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