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Page 70
... interest to vary the days - it was so much easier to renounce the interest before it came . ) ( Book Five , Chapter 1 ) This mild and muted irony does not hold up its hands and exclaim in horror that on the preceding page Maggie had ...
... interest to vary the days - it was so much easier to renounce the interest before it came . ) ( Book Five , Chapter 1 ) This mild and muted irony does not hold up its hands and exclaim in horror that on the preceding page Maggie had ...
Page 113
... interest , innocent both of scientific discoveries and their possible relation to ' rising in one way or another ' . ( The last phrase is a tiny example of George Eliot's apparently effortless wringing of irony from the common phrase ...
... interest , innocent both of scientific discoveries and their possible relation to ' rising in one way or another ' . ( The last phrase is a tiny example of George Eliot's apparently effortless wringing of irony from the common phrase ...
Page 116
... interest and lack of social imagination , but George Eliot seems to bring her own social imagination into unusually full play , in order most calmly to turn its direction . What had seemed of central interest was not , after all , the ...
... interest and lack of social imagination , but George Eliot seems to bring her own social imagination into unusually full play , in order most calmly to turn its direction . What had seemed of central interest was not , after all , the ...
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