The Living Age, Volume 236Living Age Company, 1903 |
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... able than the age of Wordsworth in England , of Hugo in France . There has never before been a period in which the imagination of mankind gave itself over so completely to shaping imagi- native thought in prose as that which began with ...
... able than the age of Wordsworth in England , of Hugo in France . There has never before been a period in which the imagination of mankind gave itself over so completely to shaping imagi- native thought in prose as that which began with ...
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... able men have chafed under the necessity of introducing the petticoat motive , no matter how slight- ly . Stevenson's is a notable instance , and he achieved fame by three books , in none of which does a woman figure , except The ...
... able men have chafed under the necessity of introducing the petticoat motive , no matter how slight- ly . Stevenson's is a notable instance , and he achieved fame by three books , in none of which does a woman figure , except The ...
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... able limits , as was proved by the great popularity of " Sir Richard Calmady , " there are signs that literary activity is seeking new directions . With the exception of Lucas Malet , it would be hard to name any contemporary writer of ...
... able limits , as was proved by the great popularity of " Sir Richard Calmady , " there are signs that literary activity is seeking new directions . With the exception of Lucas Malet , it would be hard to name any contemporary writer of ...
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... able seems the large creative faculty of the great three - Scott , Dickens , and Thackeray ; nor do the ladies of to - day come much nearer to the impeccable art of Miss Austen , the wider range of George Eliot , or the fierce power of ...
... able seems the large creative faculty of the great three - Scott , Dickens , and Thackeray ; nor do the ladies of to - day come much nearer to the impeccable art of Miss Austen , the wider range of George Eliot , or the fierce power of ...
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... able to go out to the rocks . At once a derisive howl went up from the entire wagon - party . " You had better ask what time next week , or how early in July " ; and then it was borne in upon us that when you once enter the woods you ...
... able to go out to the rocks . At once a derisive howl went up from the entire wagon - party . " You had better ask what time next week , or how early in July " ; and then it was borne in upon us that when you once enter the woods you ...
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