text: They agreed that she `` combined ( Henry Fielding 's and Samuel Richardson 's ) qualities of interiority and irony , realism and satire to form an author superior to both '' .
simplified: They agreed that she `` combined ( put together ) ( Henry Fielding 's and Samuel Richardson 's ) qualities of interiority and irony , realism and satire to form an author superior to ( better than ) both '' .