Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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A Book of Critical Essays David Cecil. talent . Her observation was not intelligent enough to enable her to vitalise a deep complex nature whose demeanour was uncoloured by any obvious idiosyn- crasies . The consequence is that , though ...
A Book of Critical Essays David Cecil. talent . Her observation was not intelligent enough to enable her to vitalise a deep complex nature whose demeanour was uncoloured by any obvious idiosyn- crasies . The consequence is that , though ...
Page 119
... observation . Elizabeth Bennet is misled by the immediate agreeability of the one and the haughty formality of the other , into liking Wickham and disliking Darcy : the action describes how further knowledges teaches her to reverse ...
... observation . Elizabeth Bennet is misled by the immediate agreeability of the one and the haughty formality of the other , into liking Wickham and disliking Darcy : the action describes how further knowledges teaches her to reverse ...
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... observation ; it is diversified by an incessantly changing procession of moods ; it is made vital by her unsleeping curiosity about everything great and small that comes within her line of vision . She is by far the most satisfying of ...
... observation ; it is diversified by an incessantly changing procession of moods ; it is made vital by her unsleeping curiosity about everything great and small that comes within her line of vision . She is by far the most satisfying of ...
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