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... Fielding went on to do something quite different from merely poking fun at Richardson . Fielding shared with his half - brother , Sir John Fielding , who succeeded him at Bow Street , the distinction of being the best magis- trate ...
... Fielding went on to do something quite different from merely poking fun at Richardson . Fielding shared with his half - brother , Sir John Fielding , who succeeded him at Bow Street , the distinction of being the best magis- trate ...
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... Fielding loathed . Fielding , it has become a cliché of criticism , was ' a man's man ' , and his heroines are the women of a man's man . Sophia Western is scarcely likely to satisfy a feminist . But she is anything but a doll , and her ...
... Fielding loathed . Fielding , it has become a cliché of criticism , was ' a man's man ' , and his heroines are the women of a man's man . Sophia Western is scarcely likely to satisfy a feminist . But she is anything but a doll , and her ...
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... Fielding was writing . The reader who comes to Fielding's fiction with some acquaint- ance already with the nineteenth - century novel may sometimes feel that he has read it before . In a sense he has . Fielding is the great original in ...
... Fielding was writing . The reader who comes to Fielding's fiction with some acquaint- ance already with the nineteenth - century novel may sometimes feel that he has read it before . In a sense he has . Fielding is the great original in ...
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