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Page 30
... concerned with the judicious weighing of pros and cons which comes from an impartial understanding of the complexities of human life : Mirth and Melancholy are in their own terms absolute , not partial values . This concern with ...
... concerned with the judicious weighing of pros and cons which comes from an impartial understanding of the complexities of human life : Mirth and Melancholy are in their own terms absolute , not partial values . This concern with ...
Page 107
... concern of the characters with economic self - betterment is a function of a larger concern with manipulating the ... concerned not so much with surviving as with seeing and contemplating . As with Defoe , the narra- tives of most ...
... concern of the characters with economic self - betterment is a function of a larger concern with manipulating the ... concerned not so much with surviving as with seeing and contemplating . As with Defoe , the narra- tives of most ...
Page 183
... concerned with pains which nature and not man causes , pains therefore ( in Crabbe's own view ) unrectifiable . Like Goldsmith in The Deserted Village ( 287 ff . ) , Crabbe at one point compares the land to a woman , and like ...
... concerned with pains which nature and not man causes , pains therefore ( in Crabbe's own view ) unrectifiable . Like Goldsmith in The Deserted Village ( 287 ff . ) , Crabbe at one point compares the land to a woman , and like ...
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