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... thought was passion , and we have supped so full with horrors that we are not easily frightened . We are simply bored as we see the novelist get out his little bag of tricks . But we never weary of the great figures in Fielding , in ...
... thought was passion , and we have supped so full with horrors that we are not easily frightened . We are simply bored as we see the novelist get out his little bag of tricks . But we never weary of the great figures in Fielding , in ...
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... thought the chief duty of a married woman was to please her husband , and attend to domestic affairs . Furthermore , he shocked his fair corre- spondent , as he does his admirers to - day , by theo- retically advocating polygamy . He ...
... thought the chief duty of a married woman was to please her husband , and attend to domestic affairs . Furthermore , he shocked his fair corre- spondent , as he does his admirers to - day , by theo- retically advocating polygamy . He ...
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... thought myself trans- ported to an enchanted land . " Everything I saw , everything I tasted , recalled to me the idea of the golden age . Here are to be seen no counterfeits , such as are the offsprings of vanity , and the delight of ...
... thought myself trans- ported to an enchanted land . " Everything I saw , everything I tasted , recalled to me the idea of the golden age . Here are to be seen no counterfeits , such as are the offsprings of vanity , and the delight of ...
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... thought by some , a little to obscure those really valuable qualifications and talents they undoubtedly possessed . Yet , this was supposed to be owing more to Mrs. Richardson than to him ; who , though a truly good woman , had high and ...
... thought by some , a little to obscure those really valuable qualifications and talents they undoubtedly possessed . Yet , this was supposed to be owing more to Mrs. Richardson than to him ; who , though a truly good woman , had high and ...
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... Thoughts , to the irrepressible Weltkind Colley Cibber these limits exhibit the generous size of Richardson's mantle of charity . Fielding he had every reason to hate ; and doubtless he hated him ; yet more in sorrow than in anger . It ...
... Thoughts , to the irrepressible Weltkind Colley Cibber these limits exhibit the generous size of Richardson's mantle of charity . Fielding he had every reason to hate ; and doubtless he hated him ; yet more in sorrow than in anger . It ...
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