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... means a bad plan , as a preliminary , to read the Falstaff scenes through by themselves . Then when in the midst of the pageant of events we have to imagine the huge figure come rolling on the stage , it may the more readily strike us ...
... means a bad plan , as a preliminary , to read the Falstaff scenes through by themselves . Then when in the midst of the pageant of events we have to imagine the huge figure come rolling on the stage , it may the more readily strike us ...
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... mean a lack of intimacy . If we know little , we also know everything . Her books are there ; and surmising where two ... means at all . This , too , Jane Austen's books have revealed to us about Jane Austen : that she lived her short ...
... mean a lack of intimacy . If we know little , we also know everything . Her books are there ; and surmising where two ... means at all . This , too , Jane Austen's books have revealed to us about Jane Austen : that she lived her short ...
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... means many , cadences and rhythms , some ingenuity in trope and metaphor , and a cunning adaptation of that trick of specialising with proper names with which Lord Macaulay has surfeited readers for the last half - century— these ...
... means many , cadences and rhythms , some ingenuity in trope and metaphor , and a cunning adaptation of that trick of specialising with proper names with which Lord Macaulay has surfeited readers for the last half - century— these ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I THE FIRST BOOKS IN THE WORLD | 1 |
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