The Living Age, Volume 236Living Age Company, 1903 |
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... Sense and Sensibility " appeared in 1811 , and her five other books within the next decade ; but it was not till long after that a first mention of them was made in these pages . Yet among a wide circle of readers the vogue of the novel ...
... Sense and Sensibility " appeared in 1811 , and her five other books within the next decade ; but it was not till long after that a first mention of them was made in these pages . Yet among a wide circle of readers the vogue of the novel ...
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... sense of comedy , and that hu- man sympathy which lies so near it ; she could not enlarge and nourish the imagination . It was for Scott to show outlying tracts of the world , and back- ward ranges of time , peopled with liv- ing ...
... sense of comedy , and that hu- man sympathy which lies so near it ; she could not enlarge and nourish the imagination . It was for Scott to show outlying tracts of the world , and back- ward ranges of time , peopled with liv- ing ...
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... sense , Scott , the clansman , paved the way for Dickens , the Cockney , and for the romance of familiar life . It must be freely allowed that Scott had probably no intention of doing any such thing . No great man of letters , with the ...
... sense , Scott , the clansman , paved the way for Dickens , the Cockney , and for the romance of familiar life . It must be freely allowed that Scott had probably no intention of doing any such thing . No great man of letters , with the ...
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... sense of honor , even to the most dishonorable foe , had pre- vailed over more practical motives . In some of the upland valleys that served as funnels to collect all the breezes , the gale was so strong that it needed persuasion to ...
... sense of honor , even to the most dishonorable foe , had pre- vailed over more practical motives . In some of the upland valleys that served as funnels to collect all the breezes , the gale was so strong that it needed persuasion to ...
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... sense of something missing . A moment later it dawned upon us that it was the roar of the surf that was gone . There could be no mistake about it . We threw our ears up the wind , and could catch only a dull , drowsy growl in place of ...
... sense of something missing . A moment later it dawned upon us that it was the roar of the surf that was gone . There could be no mistake about it . We threw our ears up the wind , and could catch only a dull , drowsy growl in place of ...
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