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... interest the public in the lower classes . Novels and plays that dealt with them were very generally considered sor- did . It will be curious to see if now that these classes have acquired political power the public at large will take ...
... interest the public in the lower classes . Novels and plays that dealt with them were very generally considered sor- did . It will be curious to see if now that these classes have acquired political power the public at large will take ...
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... interest . It is important in a novel too , but here greater space permits of greater latitude and , just as according to the idealists evil is transformed into the perfect good of the Absolute , so certain digressions may take their ...
... interest . It is important in a novel too , but here greater space permits of greater latitude and , just as according to the idealists evil is transformed into the perfect good of the Absolute , so certain digressions may take their ...
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... interest is established in the persons whom the playwright introduces at the be- ginning of his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon the scene later , a sense of disappointment ensues ...
... interest is established in the persons whom the playwright introduces at the be- ginning of his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon the scene later , a sense of disappointment ensues ...
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