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Page 66
... represents his talent at its purest . Peregrine Pickle , judged as a whole , cannot be compared with it ; yet it con- tains his best comic character and his finest piece of com- edy . In form and manner it follows the earlier book ...
... represents his talent at its purest . Peregrine Pickle , judged as a whole , cannot be compared with it ; yet it con- tains his best comic character and his finest piece of com- edy . In form and manner it follows the earlier book ...
Page 96
... represents the feminization of Fielding's art . It involved , of course , a tremendous diminution of Fielding's ... represent the entry of the modern notion of class . In the work of the great eighteenth - century novelists class is ...
... represents the feminization of Fielding's art . It involved , of course , a tremendous diminution of Fielding's ... represent the entry of the modern notion of class . In the work of the great eighteenth - century novelists class is ...
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... represents drags classes higher , as well as lower , than his own into his orbit ; he can buy an aristocratic young woman as his second wife . But Dombey , though he does not know it , himself represents a form of power in its ...
... represents drags classes higher , as well as lower , than his own into his orbit ; he can buy an aristocratic young woman as his second wife . But Dombey , though he does not know it , himself represents a form of power in its ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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