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Page v
... novels . Some may be genuinely surprised to find these essays unexceptionable in delicacy , not unfit reading virginibus puerisque ; though lovers of Fielding's art do not need to be told that his coarsest passages are less liable to do ...
... novels . Some may be genuinely surprised to find these essays unexceptionable in delicacy , not unfit reading virginibus puerisque ; though lovers of Fielding's art do not need to be told that his coarsest passages are less liable to do ...
Page xiii
... a writer of essays and novels , shone so brilliantly . The Coffee - House Politician was a clever farce in the same vein , but Tom Thumb outdid both and may be regarded without exaggeration as a masterpiece of INTRODUCTION xiii.
... a writer of essays and novels , shone so brilliantly . The Coffee - House Politician was a clever farce in the same vein , but Tom Thumb outdid both and may be regarded without exaggeration as a masterpiece of INTRODUCTION xiii.
Page xix
... novel both amused and disgusted Fielding . Perhaps its great vogue may also have piqued his robust intellect with something like envy of its author , for whom personally he had never anything but the profoundest contempt . Accordingly ...
... novel both amused and disgusted Fielding . Perhaps its great vogue may also have piqued his robust intellect with something like envy of its author , for whom personally he had never anything but the profoundest contempt . Accordingly ...
Page xxiv
... novel has appeared in almost innumerable English editions and has been translated into most of the European languages . In the somewhat limited leisure of his life as a justice Field- ing now began a new novel , which was to be his last ...
... novel has appeared in almost innumerable English editions and has been translated into most of the European languages . In the somewhat limited leisure of his life as a justice Field- ing now began a new novel , which was to be his last ...
Page xxv
... novel rather harshly , but as usual their adverse comments had little influence on its popularity . Almost immediately after the publication of Amelia , Fielding started a new biweekly paper , The Covent - Garden Journal , in which he ...
... novel rather harshly , but as usual their adverse comments had little influence on its popularity . Almost immediately after the publication of Amelia , Fielding started a new biweekly paper , The Covent - Garden Journal , in which he ...
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