Word: thankeray
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...Theatre to hear a reproduction of the noises of the street," this same music may be as pellucid as the pool of a mountain stream. All this, however, gives the Victorian little help in his present task. All of his loves--very respectable indeed, but old-fashioned--Scott, Dickens Thankeray, the great Jane, Fielding, Chaucer, Goldsmith, Byron, Wordsworth, Shakespere, and the people of the Bible, have trained and perhaps limited him to expect definiteness, consequence, and satisfaction. In his time and in his reading of English literature morality had never been successfully divorced from art; in fact, a degree...
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