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... Fielding went on to do something quite different from merely poking fun at Richardson . Fielding shared with his half - brother , Sir John Fielding , who succeeded him at Bow Street , the distinction of being the best magistrate London ...
... Fielding went on to do something quite different from merely poking fun at Richardson . Fielding shared with his half - brother , Sir John Fielding , who succeeded him at Bow Street , the distinction of being the best magistrate London ...
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... Fielding's personages in Joseph Andrews are episodic ; they appear only once , met and passed in the course of Joseph's and Adam's peregrinations . But we feel , of Mrs. Tow- wouse , Parson Trulliber ( the finest of them all , after ...
... Fielding's personages in Joseph Andrews are episodic ; they appear only once , met and passed in the course of Joseph's and Adam's peregrinations . But we feel , of Mrs. Tow- wouse , Parson Trulliber ( the finest of them all , after ...
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... Fielding's most fully drawn heroine is Amelia , in the novel of that name , his last , published in 1751. Amelia has always rather worried Fielding's critics . It is a much more somber book than Tom Jones . In that novel , as in Jona ...
... Fielding's most fully drawn heroine is Amelia , in the novel of that name , his last , published in 1751. Amelia has always rather worried Fielding's critics . It is a much more somber book than Tom Jones . In that novel , as in Jona ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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