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Yma16 Posted 12 years ago
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What does attend mean? Does it mean to be inside?
WALTER SCOTT, who craved the beatitude -- the word is his own --
that would attend the perusal of another book as entrancing as
Gil Blas, was on the side of the untutored public which knows
nothing of technical classifications or of M. Brunetière's theory
of the "evolution des genres."
that would attend the perusal of another book as entrancing as
Gil Blas, was on the side of the untutored public which knows
nothing of technical classifications or of M. Brunetière's theory
of the "evolution des genres."
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No. follow as a consequence, accompany. Clive
- No.
- follow as a consequence, accompany.
- Clive
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Does it mean that the similar beatitude could be found in another book when a reader is reading it?
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I interpret it this way.
Scott enjoyed reading Gil Blas.
Afterwards, he wanted the great happiness that he knew would come from reading another book as good as Gil Blas.
Scott enjoyed reading Gil Blas.
Afterwards, he wanted the great happiness that he knew would come from reading another book as good as Gil Blas.
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This is difficult to interpret without the entire context in which it appears. What complicated things is that Scott read the text in the original French, since an English translation did not appear until after his death. With this in mind, "craved the beatitude...that would attend the perusal of another book as entrancing as Gil Blas...", apparently refers to Gil Blas itself. That is, "another
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Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet.
Does the beatitude mean the book of Gil Blas?
Does the beatitude mean the book of Gil Blas?
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The beatitude here means joy, right?
Have you looked up the word .'beatitude' in a dictionary?
Have you looked up the word .'beatitude' in a dictionary?
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