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Page 68
... youth into the conquering hero of the Slade School ; but his biographer suggests that relegation to a sick - bed ... youth , certainly in middle age , he sometimes found it an embarrassment , a disguise that , once he had adopted it , he ...
... youth into the conquering hero of the Slade School ; but his biographer suggests that relegation to a sick - bed ... youth , certainly in middle age , he sometimes found it an embarrassment , a disguise that , once he had adopted it , he ...
Page 102
... youth . A strong poetic feeling for the story's mise - en - scène runs though many English novels ; and some , in- deed , evoke a complete landscape that soon grows much more real to us than the protagonists themselves - Lawrence's ...
... youth . A strong poetic feeling for the story's mise - en - scène runs though many English novels ; and some , in- deed , evoke a complete landscape that soon grows much more real to us than the protagonists themselves - Lawrence's ...
Page 148
... youth , and then astonished to learn that this splendid ephebus was Randolph only five or six years earlier . Middle age had descended on him quickly ; some while before we became ac- quainted , he had already developed the appearance ...
... youth , and then astonished to learn that this splendid ephebus was Randolph only five or six years earlier . Middle age had descended on him quickly ; some while before we became ac- quainted , he had already developed the appearance ...
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The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
The Death of the Lion | 66 |
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