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... side by side . It probes social wounds and evils , unveils shams , punctures with the fine pen - pricks of its irony foibles and painted bubbles of folly . Its satire is juster , more far- reaching and impersonal than that of the ...
... side by side . It probes social wounds and evils , unveils shams , punctures with the fine pen - pricks of its irony foibles and painted bubbles of folly . Its satire is juster , more far- reaching and impersonal than that of the ...
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... Side by side with Désirée is Sidonie , coldly vicious to the core , to whom vice is merely a means of - attaining an end , and that end the gratification of XX Introduction .
... Side by side with Désirée is Sidonie , coldly vicious to the core , to whom vice is merely a means of - attaining an end , and that end the gratification of XX Introduction .
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... side by side , the novelist must paint both . makes the difference between two of which treat of the same subject ? It is an indefinable difference so intangible it can scarcely be put into words and underlying it is the element of ...
... side by side , the novelist must paint both . makes the difference between two of which treat of the same subject ? It is an indefinable difference so intangible it can scarcely be put into words and underlying it is the element of ...
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... side . She was an elegant creature , irreproachably gowned , in the very height of fashion - it was then December , 1858 ; the softness of her furs , the richness of her black dress , the discreet originality of her bonnet , revealed ...
... side . She was an elegant creature , irreproachably gowned , in the very height of fashion - it was then December , 1858 ; the softness of her furs , the richness of her black dress , the discreet originality of her bonnet , revealed ...
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... Side by side with stately dwellings , displaying their swelling fronts and plate - glass transparencies , light silken curtains , gilded statuettes , and rustic jardinières , were working men's lodgings , tumble- down rookeries which re ...
... Side by side with stately dwellings , displaying their swelling fronts and plate - glass transparencies , light silken curtains , gilded statuettes , and rustic jardinières , were working men's lodgings , tumble- down rookeries which re ...
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Page 103 - DE L'ENFANT A SON RÉVEIL O père qu'adore mon père ! Toi qu'on ne nomme qu'à genoux! Toi, dont le nom terrible et doux Fait courber le front de ma mère! On dit que ce brillant soleil N'est qu'un jouet de ta puissance; Que sous tes pieds il se balance Comme une lampe de vermeil. On dit que c'est toi qui fais naître Les petits oiseaux dans les champs, Et qui...
Page xxiv - Did we think victory great ? So it is — but now it seems to me, when it cannot be help'd, that defeat is great, And that death and dismay are great.
Page 285 - ... workman, is no longer what it used to be ; oh, no ! not at all the same thing, not at all. You must know that the time- of the working-man has now come. The middle classes have had their day, the aristocracy likewise. Although, I must say, the aristocracy- Moreover, is it not more natural at your age, to allow yourself to be guided by those who love you, and who are experienced ? " A sob from the child interrupted her. " Then you too send me away; you too send me away.