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Page 105
... things only as she has known them . The means by which a reader gains a sense of the dominance of character are various . Usually the char- acter is frankly the most important element in the book . He is the center of the story ...
... things only as she has known them . The means by which a reader gains a sense of the dominance of character are various . Usually the char- acter is frankly the most important element in the book . He is the center of the story ...
Page 129
... things , to insist upon the fateful power of trivial incidents . No one has yet dared to do this seriously . It has ... thing I mean . There was poor Allen , who lost the most valuable opportunity of his life because he hadn't a clean ...
... things , to insist upon the fateful power of trivial incidents . No one has yet dared to do this seriously . It has ... thing I mean . There was poor Allen , who lost the most valuable opportunity of his life because he hadn't a clean ...
Page 220
... things , " the meal in the firkin , the milk in the pan . " But he is not bucolic , he has read widely and makes a quaintly whimsical use of his learning , seeing common things in a new and slightly fantastic light with great use of sly ...
... things , " the meal in the firkin , the milk in the pan . " But he is not bucolic , he has read widely and makes a quaintly whimsical use of his learning , seeing common things in a new and slightly fantastic light with great use of sly ...
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action Æschylus audience ballad beauty Ben Jonson characters charm classic climax comedy complete criticism Darcy death developed dominance drama dramatic literature dramatist Edipus eighteenth century Elizabeth Elizabethan emotional English literature epic essay essayist experience exposition expression fate feel fiction George Eliot Greek tragedy Hamlet heroic heroic couplet human Iago iambic iambic pentameter ideas illusion imaginative important incident influence intense interest King literary lives lyric lyrical poetry Matthew Arnold Milton mind modern narrative neo-classic never novel novelist Othello Pater pattern period play plot poem poet poetic poetry popular present Pride and Prejudice prose reader Renaissance rhyme rhythm romance satire scene sense Shakespeare social sometimes song sonnet soul speech spirit stage stanza story structure student style sweet Tale Tartuffe thee theme thou thought tion trimeter unity verse vivid Walter Pater women words writers
References to this book
Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College Harvard University. Library. Lamont Library,Lamont Library No preview available - 1953 |