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... behavior " in loving his family and trusting his friends rightly earns him the contempt of the whole jail . Apart from the interlude describing Mrs. Heartfree's return from Africa , a flaw in the construction of the novel but ...
... behavior " in loving his family and trusting his friends rightly earns him the contempt of the whole jail . Apart from the interlude describing Mrs. Heartfree's return from Africa , a flaw in the construction of the novel but ...
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... behavior , a code of behavior plainly incomprehensible to many modern readers . Why , for instance , was it so wrong for the young Bertrams to perform a play in their father's absence ? To answer the question would be almost to write a ...
... behavior , a code of behavior plainly incomprehensible to many modern readers . Why , for instance , was it so wrong for the young Bertrams to perform a play in their father's absence ? To answer the question would be almost to write a ...
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... behavior , but he respects him . It is this charity , this recognition of the gap between ideal behavior and the actual behavior of men , that makes him the true successor to Fielding , the Fielding particu- larly of Amelia . In the ...
... behavior , but he respects him . It is this charity , this recognition of the gap between ideal behavior and the actual behavior of men , that makes him the true successor to Fielding , the Fielding particu- larly of Amelia . In the ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
Copyright | |
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