Poets and Story-tellersBarnes & Noble, 1961 - 201 pages |
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Page 141
... Adolphe . No great novel has a more limited canvas . This is deliberate . Benjamin Constant , its author , said that he wrote it partly to show that one could write a novel with only two characters , and involved all through in a single ...
... Adolphe . No great novel has a more limited canvas . This is deliberate . Benjamin Constant , its author , said that he wrote it partly to show that one could write a novel with only two characters , and involved all through in a single ...
Page 144
... Adolphe first meets her , fiery , sombre , fitful , troubled , makes an effect like that of a beautiful storm , " un bel orage " -the expression is almost untranslatable - Adolphe's last passages of untroubled love , faint reflections ...
... Adolphe first meets her , fiery , sombre , fitful , troubled , makes an effect like that of a beautiful storm , " un bel orage " -the expression is almost untranslatable - Adolphe's last passages of untroubled love , faint reflections ...
Page 150
... Adolphe . For one thing , few people are capable of loving with the obsessing intensity of Ellénore . For another , it is rare to get entangled deeply with- out feeling more for the other party than Adolphe does . Rarely , in ...
... Adolphe . For one thing , few people are capable of loving with the obsessing intensity of Ellénore . For another , it is rare to get entangled deeply with- out feeling more for the other party than Adolphe does . Rarely , in ...
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action admiration Adolphe æsthetic Antony and Cleopatra Antony's appear artist aspects beauty Branghtons Burney's character charm comedy comic complex convention critic Dalloway death Devil drama Duchess Duchess of Malfi E. M. FORSTER eighteenth-century Elizabethan Ellénore emotion English Evelina experience expression eyes fact Fanny Burney feeling Forster give Gray Gray's hand heart heroine historical House of Gentlefolk Howard's End human humour imagination impression inevitably intensity Jane Austen ladies living Longest Journey looked love-story Mansfield Park mind Miss mood moral mystery nature never novel novelists observation Octavius once passages passion picture Pindaric play plot poem poet poetry Progress of Poesy reader realistic reality relation reveals romantic Russian satirical scene seems sense sensibility Shakespeare significance social soul spirit story success talent taste theme things THOMAS GRAY thought tragedy tragic true Turgenev turn Virginia Woolf virtue vision Webster Wilcox worldly writer