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Page 61
... feelings of the heart ' ; for by this time he had discovered Henry Mackenzie's Man of Feeling and had been precipitated into the mainstream of eighteenth - century senti- mentalism . ' My life flowed on much in the same tenor till my ...
... feelings of the heart ' ; for by this time he had discovered Henry Mackenzie's Man of Feeling and had been precipitated into the mainstream of eighteenth - century senti- mentalism . ' My life flowed on much in the same tenor till my ...
Page 100
... feeling of remorse in this connection . The reference to ' some wandering stabs of remorse ' earlier in the letter may be considered too slight an expression of his feelings under such circumstances , but one must remember that neither ...
... feeling of remorse in this connection . The reference to ' some wandering stabs of remorse ' earlier in the letter may be considered too slight an expression of his feelings under such circumstances , but one must remember that neither ...
Page 158
... feelings had become petrified he would not have felt the horror of petrified feeling which he expresses here ; the point seems to be that unless one's feelings do become petrified one can- not escape feelings of remorse and regret . It ...
... feelings had become petrified he would not have felt the horror of petrified feeling which he expresses here ; the point seems to be that unless one's feelings do become petrified one can- not escape feelings of remorse and regret . It ...
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