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... century novel may sometimes feel that he has read it before . In a sense he has . Fielding is the great original in English fiction , and , one way and another , more than half our novelists for more than a hundred years are packed away ...
... century novel may sometimes feel that he has read it before . In a sense he has . Fielding is the great original in English fiction , and , one way and another , more than half our novelists for more than a hundred years are packed away ...
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... century required was some escape from its own oppressive rationalism . Sensibility , which could find pleasure in the nicety and correctness of its feelings in the presence of human suffering or moral problems , found that it could find ...
... century required was some escape from its own oppressive rationalism . Sensibility , which could find pleasure in the nicety and correctness of its feelings in the presence of human suffering or moral problems , found that it could find ...
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... century men had scarcely distinguished between the present and the past . Then , with the beginning of the eighteenth century , the past , the great ages of Greece and Rome always excepted as peaks of human achievement moderns might ...
... century men had scarcely distinguished between the present and the past . Then , with the beginning of the eighteenth century , the past , the great ages of Greece and Rome always excepted as peaks of human achievement moderns might ...
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