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... sense of being consciously made and shaped to an aesthetic end is quite new . Though there have been few more con summate artists in the novel than Fielding and Jane Austen , for the greater part of its course in England the novel has ...
... sense of being consciously made and shaped to an aesthetic end is quite new . Though there have been few more con summate artists in the novel than Fielding and Jane Austen , for the greater part of its course in England the novel has ...
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... sense , if that is the term we decide to use , has been satisfied . If our aesthetic sense were not satisfied we should feel the poet had not succeeded wholly in telling the truth- his truth - and our feeling of curiosity about the ...
... sense , if that is the term we decide to use , has been satisfied . If our aesthetic sense were not satisfied we should feel the poet had not succeeded wholly in telling the truth- his truth - and our feeling of curiosity about the ...
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... sense . When he tells Dorothea : ' The best piety is to enjoy when you can ... It is of no use to try and take care of all the world ; that is being taken care of when you feel delight in art or in anything else . Would you turn all the ...
... sense . When he tells Dorothea : ' The best piety is to enjoy when you can ... It is of no use to try and take care of all the world ; that is being taken care of when you feel delight in art or in anything else . Would you turn all the ...
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