A Free Lance in the Field of Life and LettersA. Mason, 1874 - 340 pages |
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... pure , and sweet , and orthodox - to fit it for a place in the Sunday - school library , or for circulation by the evangelical propaganda . On the other hand , a different class of religious readers must as naturally have thought that ...
... pure , and sweet , and orthodox - to fit it for a place in the Sunday - school library , or for circulation by the evangelical propaganda . On the other hand , a different class of religious readers must as naturally have thought that ...
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... Shakespearean . " The felicity of expression , too , always corresponded . You read , and you smile , as you read , with pure pleasure of intellectual recognition , coming again and again upon a trait of human char- 8 A FREE LANCE .
... Shakespearean . " The felicity of expression , too , always corresponded . You read , and you smile , as you read , with pure pleasure of intellectual recognition , coming again and again upon a trait of human char- 8 A FREE LANCE .
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... pure artist used to have to compete with the moralist . Lately the artist's com- petition has been rather with the doctrinaire , or with the speculative psychologist . George Eliot from the first has been consistently and earnestly ...
... pure artist used to have to compete with the moralist . Lately the artist's com- petition has been rather with the doctrinaire , or with the speculative psychologist . George Eliot from the first has been consistently and earnestly ...
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... pure dramatic and the pure didactic faculty in it taken together , is , perhaps , open to question . The fact certainly is , that plot with her is everywhere subordinate to what may be termed the motive of the story , and incident is ...
... pure dramatic and the pure didactic faculty in it taken together , is , perhaps , open to question . The fact certainly is , that plot with her is everywhere subordinate to what may be termed the motive of the story , and incident is ...
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... pure dramatic idea , and have become little distin- guishable at this particular point , save in the incident of its formal construction , from the novel . Now George Eliot within her range and her range , though , unlike Shakespeare's ...
... pure dramatic idea , and have become little distin- guishable at this particular point , save in the incident of its formal construction , from the novel . Now George Eliot within her range and her range , though , unlike Shakespeare's ...
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