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Page 63
... never weep upon any occasion . They may pretend to be as heroical as they please , and pride themselves in a stoical insensibility ; but this will never pass for virtue with the true judges of human nature . What can be more nobly human ...
... never weep upon any occasion . They may pretend to be as heroical as they please , and pride themselves in a stoical insensibility ; but this will never pass for virtue with the true judges of human nature . What can be more nobly human ...
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... never a Richardsonian heroine in the full sense , for she never becomes a major correspondent . Her story was intended to provide dramatic suspense and a note of tragedy , but Richardson never allows her to write letters " to the moment ...
... never a Richardsonian heroine in the full sense , for she never becomes a major correspondent . Her story was intended to provide dramatic suspense and a note of tragedy , but Richardson never allows her to write letters " to the moment ...
Page 305
... never , I believe , been widely entertained . I am aware of statements of it by French prosodists1 and of theoretical discussions by German aestheticians , but to my knowledge the view has never been expounded in English and has never ...
... never , I believe , been widely entertained . I am aware of statements of it by French prosodists1 and of theoretical discussions by German aestheticians , but to my knowledge the view has never been expounded in English and has never ...
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The Beggars Opera | 14 |
The Authenticity of Anna Sewards Published Correspondence | 50 |
Suggestions toward a Genealogy of The Man of Feeling | 61 |
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