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Page 37
... taken as something of the sort ) : the novel of the social group . The young Dickens had summed up , devel- oped and finally outgrown the two traditions in Eng- lish fiction he had found : the picaresque tradition of Defoe , Fielding ...
... taken as something of the sort ) : the novel of the social group . The young Dickens had summed up , devel- oped and finally outgrown the two traditions in Eng- lish fiction he had found : the picaresque tradition of Defoe , Fielding ...
Page 72
... taken on an aspect more attractive than we have ever known them to wear as a class in any previous novel of Dickens . If an increase of satiric emphasis turns the Meagleses into the Podsnaps , so a shift from the satirical to the ...
... taken on an aspect more attractive than we have ever known them to wear as a class in any previous novel of Dickens . If an increase of satiric emphasis turns the Meagleses into the Podsnaps , so a shift from the satirical to the ...
Page 118
... taken into account in esti- mating his greatness as an artist - as if those stretches of Paradise Lost where everything is dead but the language were not the result of artistic deficiency . Again , the creation of life has no place in ...
... taken into account in esti- mating his greatness as an artist - as if those stretches of Paradise Lost where everything is dead but the language were not the result of artistic deficiency . Again , the creation of life has no place in ...
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