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... feelings an immense poignancy . Sterne has been reproached both for surrendering to feeling and for manipulating his own emotions - in other words , because of some pathological gulf between his head and his heart . But his is a subtler ...
... feelings an immense poignancy . Sterne has been reproached both for surrendering to feeling and for manipulating his own emotions - in other words , because of some pathological gulf between his head and his heart . But his is a subtler ...
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... feeling of charm is sometimes enough to bridge large gaps in the factual record . It may be that significant events occurred in those gaps of which we are unaware . I think it is possible , however , that very little happened but that ...
... feeling of charm is sometimes enough to bridge large gaps in the factual record . It may be that significant events occurred in those gaps of which we are unaware . I think it is possible , however , that very little happened but that ...
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... feeling of writers , he has no real commitments . Nor did he in life , as far as I can see . His response is always ... feelings . Vicesimus Knox picked out this supposedly corrupting element in Sterne which convinced many people that he ...
... feeling of writers , he has no real commitments . Nor did he in life , as far as I can see . His response is always ... feelings . Vicesimus Knox picked out this supposedly corrupting element in Sterne which convinced many people that he ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS page xiii | 1 |
When They Begot Me | 33 |
Heygomad | 45 |
Copyright | |
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