| Stein Haugom Olsen - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 246 pages
...it is the same death eternally - inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vic1ous body itself, and that only Spontaneous Combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died (32). Krook's death by spontaneous combustion, described in the last quotation, is of course the most... | |
| Christine van Boheemen - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1987 - 200 pages
...how you will, it is the same death eternally - inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only - Spontaneous Combustion, and none other of all deaths that can be died " (pp. 430-3l). One of the reasons why Dickens' novel is important not only... | |
| Robert Weisbuch - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 364 pages
...how you will, it is the same death eternally — inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only — Spontaneous...and none other of all the deaths that can be died" (346). With its neighborhood gossip, its abundance (which Henry James emphasized) of minute and often... | |
| David Clewell - Poetry - 1994 - 100 pages
...inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupt humors of the vicious body itself, and that only—Spontaneous Combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died. To be Dickens, cum moralist cum scientist, and so bloody sure. While he's setting the evil drunkard's... | |
| Richard Gordon - Medicine - 2002 - 448 pages
...how you will, it is the same death eternally — inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only - Spontaneous...and none other of all the deaths that can be died. (1852-3) EMILE ZOLA From Dr Pascal SHE COULD SEE more and more clearly inside the room, lit by thin... | |
| Donald Hawes - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 310 pages
...how you will, it is the same death eternally - inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only Spontaneous...and none other of all the deaths that can be died.' After Krook's death, Grandfather Smallweed reveals that he was Mrs Smallweed's brother; the family... | |
| Alexander Welsh - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 252 pages
...all places under all names soever, where false pretences are made, and where injustice is done. . . . Spontaneous Combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died" (32.403). Yet when questions were raised— by the knowledgeable George Henry Lewes, among others—... | |
| Deirdre David - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 292 pages
...how you will, it is the same death eternally - inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only - Spontaneous...and none other of all the deaths that can be died. (346) 236 And, to return to the literary exchanges between Melville, Hawthorne, and Dickens, consider... | |
| Eileen Cleere - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 274 pages
...how you will, it is the same death eternally — inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only — Spontaneous...and none other of all the deaths that can be died. (346) Yet before the destructive accumulations of both the Court of Chancery and Krook's dysfunctional... | |
| Janice M. Allan - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 180 pages
...how you will, it is the same death eternally - inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only - Spontaneous...and none other of all the deaths that can be died. Chapter 35: Esther's Narrative At this point the reader might be forgiven for failing to remember the... | |
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