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Page 100
... incidents in the story of little importance in a scale of cosmic values . The novel of incident , seeking to avoid such distraction , makes setting , therefore , merely the place in which events happen . Meredith's The Egoist has a firm ...
... incidents in the story of little importance in a scale of cosmic values . The novel of incident , seeking to avoid such distraction , makes setting , therefore , merely the place in which events happen . Meredith's The Egoist has a firm ...
Page 101
... incidents which are the result of violent human action and which lead to violent human action . How Stevenson rejoices in the rush of incident in his beloved Vicomte de Bragelonne ! " What a feast is spread ! Monk kidnapped ; d'Artagnan ...
... incidents which are the result of violent human action and which lead to violent human action . How Stevenson rejoices in the rush of incident in his beloved Vicomte de Bragelonne ! " What a feast is spread ! Monk kidnapped ; d'Artagnan ...
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... incident ? What is incident but the illustration of char- acter ? . . It is an incident for a woman to stand up with her hand resting on a table and look out at you in a certain way ; or if it be not an incident I think it will be hard ...
... incident ? What is incident but the illustration of char- acter ? . . It is an incident for a woman to stand up with her hand resting on a table and look out at you in a certain way ; or if it be not an incident I think it will be hard ...
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Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College Harvard University. Library. Lamont Library,Lamont Library No preview available - 1953 |