Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 81
... feelings towards her ? In Fanny Burney's novels , for the first time , the process of an ordinary , legitimate ... feeling . In Sir Charles Grandison he had used his skill to illuminate the complicated hopes and fears , the ...
... feelings towards her ? In Fanny Burney's novels , for the first time , the process of an ordinary , legitimate ... feeling . In Sir Charles Grandison he had used his skill to illuminate the complicated hopes and fears , the ...
Page 174
... feeling for the beautiful . It is not solemn . Most professional exponents of the beautiful write mainly in a mood of ecstatic elevation or delicate gravity ; and about subjects appropriate to such a state of feeling . Their most ...
... feeling for the beautiful . It is not solemn . Most professional exponents of the beautiful write mainly in a mood of ecstatic elevation or delicate gravity ; and about subjects appropriate to such a state of feeling . Their most ...
Page 182
... feeling , class feeling , family feeling , comradely feeling . Even the more primitive animal emotions , which link people otherwise diverse , do not mean much to him , if we are to judge by his account of them . Sex in his stories is a ...
... feeling , class feeling , family feeling , comradely feeling . Even the more primitive animal emotions , which link people otherwise diverse , do not mean much to him , if we are to judge by his account of them . Sex in his stories is a ...
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