Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 4 AIL 0341 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Sensible Writers" in Fielding
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The idea
Fielding says such lives are most agreeable and instructive when delivered to us by sensible writers. Sensible means judicious or perceptive, not emotionally responsive. The glossary has no entry for it, and the modern sense would make the phrase mean something Fielding did not write.
In practice
Sensible is judicious here.
Where people slip
Another shifted sense inside a tone passage.
Your place on the trail
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