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Page 48
... remains always in command of every situation . In Sir Charles , Richardson exposes his own ideas of what constitutes human goodness ; he is , perhaps , Meredith's Sir Willoughby Patterne taken with dead serious- ness , at his face value ...
... remains always in command of every situation . In Sir Charles , Richardson exposes his own ideas of what constitutes human goodness ; he is , perhaps , Meredith's Sir Willoughby Patterne taken with dead serious- ness , at his face value ...
Page 76
... remains an original . No one else has done what he did , though his influence on later writers has been tremendous . His discovery of the delights of sensibility , the pleasures of the feeling heart , was the discovery of a whole ...
... remains an original . No one else has done what he did , though his influence on later writers has been tremendous . His discovery of the delights of sensibility , the pleasures of the feeling heart , was the discovery of a whole ...
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... remains to him than appears from Aspects of the Novel , and what remains is not merely his historical influence . That was enormous ; one may say , quite simply , that he made the European novel and say something much more true than ...
... remains to him than appears from Aspects of the Novel , and what remains is not merely his historical influence . That was enormous ; one may say , quite simply , that he made the European novel and say something much more true than ...
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