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Page 98
... painted in the letters . Marivaux's intention is less to give a model of polite sociability than to investigate areas of private emotion . Addison and Steele created their own public , providing it with examples of polite moral ...
... painted in the letters . Marivaux's intention is less to give a model of polite sociability than to investigate areas of private emotion . Addison and Steele created their own public , providing it with examples of polite moral ...
Page 269
... painting : it lies in the way a painter visualizes what he sees . There follows , under the title " Comparaisons , " a collection of different , in some cases moralising , comments , on the relativity of moeurs , such as the then ...
... painting : it lies in the way a painter visualizes what he sees . There follows , under the title " Comparaisons , " a collection of different , in some cases moralising , comments , on the relativity of moeurs , such as the then ...
Contents
JOHN PORTER HOUSTON | 25 |
PHYLLIS K LEFFLER AND ELIZABETH M TILTON | 57 |
ROGER DUCHENE | 75 |
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