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... fact read the Life rather attentively . She opens with the expectation of " having nothing to say " to Cassandra ... Facts " ( Letters , 181 ) . is apparently referring to Johnson's letter to Boswell ( 4 July 1774 ) , in which Johnson ...
... fact read the Life rather attentively . She opens with the expectation of " having nothing to say " to Cassandra ... Facts " ( Letters , 181 ) . is apparently referring to Johnson's letter to Boswell ( 4 July 1774 ) , in which Johnson ...
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... fact , guided not by her active imagi- nation but by what is " simple and probable , " by " circumstances , " by observation and remembrance , and by the " perfect use of her senses , " Catherine's life is used to demonstrate , as Jane ...
... fact , guided not by her active imagi- nation but by what is " simple and probable , " by " circumstances , " by observation and remembrance , and by the " perfect use of her senses , " Catherine's life is used to demonstrate , as Jane ...
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... fact shows that " not merely false feeling , but feeling itself , is bad " and that " the only cure for a passionate heart is to remove it " ; Persuasion , on the other hand , has " a new impulse , feeling ; and a new climax , self ...
... fact shows that " not merely false feeling , but feeling itself , is bad " and that " the only cure for a passionate heart is to remove it " ; Persuasion , on the other hand , has " a new impulse , feeling ; and a new climax , self ...
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