Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 12
... seems to say to us , " look , I will show you what these famous people , whom you only see from a distance , seem like close at hand ; this is the sort of life they lead -this is the sort of motive that actuates them . " Antony and ...
... seems to say to us , " look , I will show you what these famous people , whom you only see from a distance , seem like close at hand ; this is the sort of life they lead -this is the sort of motive that actuates them . " Antony and ...
Page 108
... seems a free growth . She makes her incidents so natural , endows her characters with so independent a reality , that it is possible to read about them without ever realising that they are part of a scheme at all . Even if we do realise ...
... seems a free growth . She makes her incidents so natural , endows her characters with so independent a reality , that it is possible to read about them without ever realising that they are part of a scheme at all . Even if we do realise ...
Page 167
... seems to be yet another step ahead nearer penetrating the mystery . After the successful performance of her pageant a wave of depression overwhelms its authoress , Miss La Trobe , as she realises how ephemeral her work is . She may have ...
... seems to be yet another step ahead nearer penetrating the mystery . After the successful performance of her pageant a wave of depression overwhelms its authoress , Miss La Trobe , as she realises how ephemeral her work is . She may have ...
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