Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 68
... emotions about it as the recurrent emotion of generations of Etonians . These reflective poems , too , are more moving than the Pindaric Odes . No wonder : they were the product of the deepest emotional crisis of his life . The ...
... emotions about it as the recurrent emotion of generations of Etonians . These reflective poems , too , are more moving than the Pindaric Odes . No wonder : they were the product of the deepest emotional crisis of his life . The ...
Page 89
... emotion . How justly she describes Cecilia's gradual discovery that her heart is lost to young Delvile ! With what a succession of convincing touches she portrays the scene in which the innocent Evelina , already attached to Lord ...
... emotion . How justly she describes Cecilia's gradual discovery that her heart is lost to young Delvile ! With what a succession of convincing touches she portrays the scene in which the innocent Evelina , already attached to Lord ...
Page 103
... emotion directly . She surveyed her creatures with too detached an irony for her to identify herself with them sufficiently to voice their unthinking gushes of feeling . On the few occasions she tried she becomes self - conscious ...
... emotion directly . She surveyed her creatures with too detached an irony for her to identify herself with them sufficiently to voice their unthinking gushes of feeling . On the few occasions she tried she becomes self - conscious ...
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