Poets and Story-tellersBarnes & Noble, 1961 - 201 pages |
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Page 15
... worldly atmosphere of Court and Council Chamber he introduces the strange figure of the soothsayer . Ostensibly he is only a tame fortune - teller hanging about the Court for the entertainment of idle people . Nobody seems to take his ...
... worldly atmosphere of Court and Council Chamber he introduces the strange figure of the soothsayer . Ostensibly he is only a tame fortune - teller hanging about the Court for the entertainment of idle people . Nobody seems to take his ...
Page 21
... worldly power can- not be a final test of success . He goes on to ask , " Is worldly success really worth having ? " Shakespeare's unillusioned examination of the story has made him very doubtful . A profound irony colours the scene ...
... worldly power can- not be a final test of success . He goes on to ask , " Is worldly success really worth having ? " Shakespeare's unillusioned examination of the story has made him very doubtful . A profound irony colours the scene ...
Page 116
... worldly considerations she thought it a mistake to overlook them entirely . It was wrong to marry for money , but it was silly to marry without it . Nor should one lightly break with convention . Only fools imagined they could live ...
... worldly considerations she thought it a mistake to overlook them entirely . It was wrong to marry for money , but it was silly to marry without it . Nor should one lightly break with convention . Only fools imagined they could live ...
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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