The Living Age, Volume 236Living Age Company, 1903 |
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Page 4
... interest of the plot was the interest of the secondary char- acters , who were , indeed , the living forces that actuated and guided those accurate pieces of machinery , the high- spirited young man and the ringletted young lady . And ...
... interest of the plot was the interest of the secondary char- acters , who were , indeed , the living forces that actuated and guided those accurate pieces of machinery , the high- spirited young man and the ringletted young lady . And ...
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... interest which Scott had generated in local pe- culiarities of life , thought , and speech . Nor was the influence confined to Scot- land . From Miss Edgeworth's country Lady Morgan sent her " Wild Irish Girl , " who had a vogue that is ...
... interest which Scott had generated in local pe- culiarities of life , thought , and speech . Nor was the influence confined to Scot- land . From Miss Edgeworth's country Lady Morgan sent her " Wild Irish Girl , " who had a vogue that is ...
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... interest itself in poetry . The taste for work of literary invention has concentrated itself upon the literature which pleases the imagination with a plot and with the presentment of character , but which makes extremely little demand ...
... interest itself in poetry . The taste for work of literary invention has concentrated itself upon the literature which pleases the imagination with a plot and with the presentment of character , but which makes extremely little demand ...
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... interest in the matter , and never showed any in- clination to kick against the necessity of this central preoccupation with the romance of sex attraction . In Scott , indeed , though a woman , like Helen , is always the cause and the ...
... interest in the matter , and never showed any in- clination to kick against the necessity of this central preoccupation with the romance of sex attraction . In Scott , indeed , though a woman , like Helen , is always the cause and the ...
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... interest ; and in the " Ebbtide , " the " Wreckers , " and the " Beach , of Falesá , " women play a small part . The reasons for this de- parture from precedent are interesting to consider . Partly , no doubt , Steven- son was drawn by ...
... interest ; and in the " Ebbtide , " the " Wreckers , " and the " Beach , of Falesá , " women play a small part . The reasons for this de- parture from precedent are interesting to consider . Partly , no doubt , Steven- son was drawn by ...
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