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Page 193
... characters portrayed possesses the smallest grain of virtue ; avarice , lust and sexual jealousy appear to govern all ... character has a distinctive mode of speech - a rhythm and choice of language that is his or hers alone . Thus the ...
... characters portrayed possesses the smallest grain of virtue ; avarice , lust and sexual jealousy appear to govern all ... character has a distinctive mode of speech - a rhythm and choice of language that is his or hers alone . Thus the ...
Page 259
... character , and have helped to give his imagination its peculiarly hectic colouring . He was haunted by the idea of mortal transience : I will not argue the matter : Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what ...
... character , and have helped to give his imagination its peculiarly hectic colouring . He was haunted by the idea of mortal transience : I will not argue the matter : Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what ...
Page 360
... character , his hypocrisy and weakness are subjected to minute and merciless analysis . Yet , at the end , Bulstrode arouses compassion , when after his downfall he comes face to face with his devoted wife : She locked herself in her ...
... character , his hypocrisy and weakness are subjected to minute and merciless analysis . Yet , at the end , Bulstrode arouses compassion , when after his downfall he comes face to face with his devoted wife : She locked herself in her ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Age of Chaucer | 16 |
The English Renaissance 335 | 35 |
Copyright | |
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Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture: Myth, Media, and the Man Ann Cline Kelly No preview available - 2002 |