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Peter Dixon. Chapter Five The Vicar of Wakefield As a book reviewer Goldsmith was necessarily a student of title pages . In one of his earliest reviews he thus rebukes the author of Memoirs of Sir Thomas Hughson , and ... Vicar of Wakefield.
Peter Dixon. Chapter Five The Vicar of Wakefield As a book reviewer Goldsmith was necessarily a student of title pages . In one of his earliest reviews he thus rebukes the author of Memoirs of Sir Thomas Hughson , and ... Vicar of Wakefield.
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... Vicar of Wakefield is , as Clive Probyn says , " a novel of mixed modes . ” 21 As we are shown , in the first half of the book , the Vicar's descent into un- worthiness , we are in a precisely and often very amusingly observed world of ...
... Vicar of Wakefield is , as Clive Probyn says , " a novel of mixed modes . ” 21 As we are shown , in the first half of the book , the Vicar's descent into un- worthiness , we are in a precisely and often very amusingly observed world of ...
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... Vicar of Wakefield and the Book of Job . Bevis , Richard . The Laughing Tradition : Stage Comedy in Garrick's Day . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1980. A valuable reassessment of “ sentimental " and " laughing " comedy ( chaps ...
... Vicar of Wakefield and the Book of Job . Bevis , Richard . The Laughing Tradition : Stage Comedy in Garrick's Day . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1980. A valuable reassessment of “ sentimental " and " laughing " comedy ( chaps ...
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