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... England . The French people , in Dickens ' picture , have been given ample provocation for breaking loose in the French Revolution ; but once in revolt , they are fiends and vandals . The vengeful Madame Defarge is a creature whom - as ...
... England . The French people , in Dickens ' picture , have been given ample provocation for breaking loose in the French Revolution ; but once in revolt , they are fiends and vandals . The vengeful Madame Defarge is a creature whom - as ...
Page 158
... England ; but the characters are no longer pinned down and examined as social specimens : in an atmosphere heav- ily charged , through a progression of contacts and collisions , they give out thunder and lightning like storm - clouds ...
... England ; but the characters are no longer pinned down and examined as social specimens : in an atmosphere heav- ily charged , through a progression of contacts and collisions , they give out thunder and lightning like storm - clouds ...
Page 233
... England before they dared to say anything here except in one or two quarters . . . . It makes one sick when he has broken his heart in trying to make every word living and real to see a lot of duffers , generally I think not even ...
... England before they dared to say anything here except in one or two quarters . . . . It makes one sick when he has broken his heart in trying to make every word living and real to see a lot of duffers , generally I think not even ...
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