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... simply because it is felt , then if we have not already reached sentimentality we shall find it waiting for us just round the corner . It is from Pamela , Clarissa , and Sir Charles Grandison , powerfully abetted by Sterne's Tristram ...
... simply because it is felt , then if we have not already reached sentimentality we shall find it waiting for us just round the corner . It is from Pamela , Clarissa , and Sir Charles Grandison , powerfully abetted by Sterne's Tristram ...
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... simply to that , nor even to his deeper insight into the human situation than theirs . Dying in 1916 , he appears still in many ways our con- temporary , the greatest of our contemporaries . We read him today as a modern novelist in a ...
... simply to that , nor even to his deeper insight into the human situation than theirs . Dying in 1916 , he appears still in many ways our con- temporary , the greatest of our contemporaries . We read him today as a modern novelist in a ...
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... simply in order to maintain relations with them . He declares his in- tention of being ordained as an Anglican priest and , to ingratiate himself with Sidwell and her father , settles in Exeter , where they live , to study theology ; he ...
... simply in order to maintain relations with them . He declares his in- tention of being ordained as an Anglican priest and , to ingratiate himself with Sidwell and her father , settles in Exeter , where they live , to study theology ; he ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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