Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1J. M. Dent, 1961 |
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Page 154
... look less at individuals and more at classes . They therefore make better theories and worse poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyse human ...
... look less at individuals and more at classes . They therefore make better theories and worse poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyse human ...
Page 215
... looks . Clarendon , on the other hand , represents him as a man whose " best faculty was raillery , " and who was " for his pleasant and agree- able humour acceptable unto the King . " The truth seems to be that , destitute as Bennet ...
... looks . Clarendon , on the other hand , represents him as a man whose " best faculty was raillery , " and who was " for his pleasant and agree- able humour acceptable unto the King . " The truth seems to be that , destitute as Bennet ...
Page 557
... look on a great empire merely as a buccaneer would look on a galleon . Had his heart been much worse than it was , his understanding would have preserved him from that extremity of baseness . He was an unscrupulous , perhaps an ...
... look on a great empire merely as a buccaneer would look on a galleon . Had his heart been much worse than it was , his understanding would have preserved him from that extremity of baseness . He was an unscrupulous , perhaps an ...
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