Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 36
... death . It looks as if a similar vengeance will soon fall upon Vittoria and Flamineo . Flamineo realises this , he is filled with gloomy apprehensions as to his future ; and these are further darkened by spiritual terrors . With the ...
... death . It looks as if a similar vengeance will soon fall upon Vittoria and Flamineo . Flamineo realises this , he is filled with gloomy apprehensions as to his future ; and these are further darkened by spiritual terrors . With the ...
Page 151
... death . Death is , after all , the most important fact about life . Most intensely of all , this strikes Adolphe , as he watches Ellénore receive the last rites of the church on her death - bed . " On my knees in the corner of her room ...
... death . Death is , after all , the most important fact about life . Most intensely of all , this strikes Adolphe , as he watches Ellénore receive the last rites of the church on her death - bed . " On my knees in the corner of her room ...
Page 164
... death than the death of friends , than the death of youth . I am the swathed figure in the hairdresser's shop taking up only so much space .... The woods had vanished ; the earth was a waste of shadow . No sound broke the silence of the ...
... death than the death of friends , than the death of youth . I am the swathed figure in the hairdresser's shop taking up only so much space .... The woods had vanished ; the earth was a waste of shadow . No sound broke the silence of the ...
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action admiration Adolphe æsthetic Antony and Cleopatra Antony's appear artist aspects beauty Branghtons Burney's character charm civilised 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 Flamineo Forster give Gray Gray's heart hero heroine historical House of Gentlefolk Howard's End human humour imagination impression inevitably Jane Austen ladies live Longest Journey looked love-story Mansfield Park mind Miss mood moral nature never Northanger Abbey novel novelists observation Octavius once passages passion picture Pindaric play plot poem poetry Progress of Poesy reader realistic reality relation reveals romantic Russian satirical scene seems sense sensibility sentiment Shakespeare shows significance social soul spirit story success talent taste theme things thought tragedy tragic true Turgenev turn Virginia Woolf virtue vision Webster Wilcox worldly writer