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Page 28
... less immediate reality , by locating it out of 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 ...
... less immediate reality , by locating it out of 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 ...
Page 169
... less improper than Sade , has been also less influential . This unfairness is perceived by the champions of Sade , and they distort the picture the other way in their fanatical attempts to right it . The special diffi- culty that Sade ...
... less improper than Sade , has been also less influential . This unfairness is perceived by the champions of Sade , and they distort the picture the other way in their fanatical attempts to right it . The special diffi- culty that Sade ...
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... less in pain all his life . There was a manic - depressive ele- ment - as appears from his own explanation of them -in the humorous stories and readings which his Cabinet sometimes found so incongruous . If his in- tellect was rigorous ...
... less in pain all his life . There was a manic - depressive ele- ment - as appears from his own explanation of them -in the humorous stories and readings which his Cabinet sometimes found so incongruous . If his in- tellect was rigorous ...
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