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... Fielding's death , not only as I shall read no more of his writings , but I believe he lost more than others , as no man enjoyed life more than he did , though few had less reason to do so , the highest of his preferment being raking in ...
... Fielding's death , not only as I shall read no more of his writings , but I believe he lost more than others , as no man enjoyed life more than he did , though few had less reason to do so , the highest of his preferment being raking in ...
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... Fielding's fierce eye for externals appears to be that of the caricaturist . We should , therefore , expect his characters to be ' flat ' , in E. M. Forster's sense of the word . But this is not so at all . Flat characters are ...
... Fielding's fierce eye for externals appears to be that of the caricaturist . We should , therefore , expect his characters to be ' flat ' , in E. M. Forster's sense of the word . But this is not so at all . Flat characters are ...
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... Fielding faces the human situation as steadily as any tragic writer . But in Amelia it is as though Fielding's resilience of spirit in the presence of the rule of wrong had been strained too far and was at the point of snapping ...
... Fielding faces the human situation as steadily as any tragic writer . But in Amelia it is as though Fielding's resilience of spirit in the presence of the rule of wrong had been strained too far and was at the point of snapping ...
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