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Page 85
... desire to usurp the paternal property , and the narrative indeed proves this desire true . After his father's " downfall , " Tom enters the peddling business , rises to join Mr. Glegg's firm , pays his father's debts , buys back the ...
... desire to usurp the paternal property , and the narrative indeed proves this desire true . After his father's " downfall , " Tom enters the peddling business , rises to join Mr. Glegg's firm , pays his father's debts , buys back the ...
Page 87
... desire , this daughter felt lost and without purpose without her father . That life with father , its deprivations and disciplines , now appeared preferable to the life in which she must define her desires apart from a father and ...
... desire , this daughter felt lost and without purpose without her father . That life with father , its deprivations and disciplines , now appeared preferable to the life in which she must define her desires apart from a father and ...
Page 93
... desire . For Tito , Romola's symbolic brother and figure for her own desires , immediately follows his impulses , obeys no law but his own " irresistible desire , " and in a " lawless moment " marries Tessa at a carnival during the ...
... desire . For Tito , Romola's symbolic brother and figure for her own desires , immediately follows his impulses , obeys no law but his own " irresistible desire , " and in a " lawless moment " marries Tessa at a carnival during the ...
Contents
Authors of Being | 10 |
A Sort of Father | 65 |
Masters and Mastery | 119 |
Copyright | |
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