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... feeling , or with the accustomed feeling minus all its charm ; and I became persuaded , that my love of mankind , and of excellence for its own sake , had worn itself out . I sought no comfort by speaking to others 30 Understanding the ...
... feeling , or with the accustomed feeling minus all its charm ; and I became persuaded , that my love of mankind , and of excellence for its own sake , had worn itself out . I sought no comfort by speaking to others 30 Understanding the ...
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... feeling that a circle has been completed , a confusion resolved . Subsistence agriculture , a falling death - rate and scanty employment opportunity outside farming implies widespread underemployment in crowded rural areas . In the case ...
... feeling that a circle has been completed , a confusion resolved . Subsistence agriculture , a falling death - rate and scanty employment opportunity outside farming implies widespread underemployment in crowded rural areas . In the case ...
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... feeling . In order to achieve this , the speeches must be heard as if spoken aloud and with much feeling , but they do not have to be consistent . For example , in the following speeches from Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain ...
... feeling . In order to achieve this , the speeches must be heard as if spoken aloud and with much feeling , but they do not have to be consistent . For example , in the following speeches from Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain ...
Contents
The Nature of Literature and its Historical Tradition | 1 |
Narrative Fiction and the Printed Word | 39 |
Drama and the Theatre | 101 |
Copyright | |
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