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… revealing itself in such diverse ways as the pomp of rituals, the prattling of babes, and the incremental repetition … thesis, no story in the formal sense of the word, and no comment by the author. In a sharply subdivided sequence of … grief it may be but, thwarted by the needs of wedded bodies and wedded souls, little more than a divider of …
… land has at least equalled that in the West, there comes consistent witness of vast growth in Christian … iniquity in a highly civilized culture. As individuals we do not necessarily grow better as we grow older; we … combat without raising Job’s ancient question: “If a man die, shall he live again?” None more than modern people have …
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… for a cottage. Fifty feet below lay a natural harbor. At a comfortable swimming distance from shore were three shoals, … as a single property.) By this time, my grandfather had died, but he had approved her plan. The islands would be … turning, at the age of fifty-nine, to fiction. As Watt points out, only a society such as Defoe’s own, well …
… most learned men of the age and was part of a distinguished company of writers of history that included such names as … thousands of compartments crammed with notes on diverse points, it seemed to him a monument to wasted labor and the … lectures and addresses on large themes to public audiences, and was recognized for his intellectual stature by …
… at this point were years of privilege and achievement: her comfortable “old New York” girlhood, marriage to the affable … and grief at the death of friends (“Why do our friends die one after the other?” she lamented to her long-time … The ampleness of the identity lies in its exuberance and also in its multi-facetedness. Edith Wharton had many …
… the Boll Weevil because when the little gas-electric locomotive-coach was placed in service in the early 1920’s the … to eradicate the cotton crop. What it represented and embodied was change . Throughout the South there were many … that—he shook his head— that— (Signet Book ed., p.260). This is a marvelous passage. What Bill Barrett wishes …