The History of Henry Fielding, Volume 3Yale University Press, 1918 |
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Page 227 - Cain, of Byron, though the latter is a magnificent poem, and read the rest fearlessly ; that must indeed be a depraved mind which can gather evil from Henry VIII., from Richard III., from Macbeth, and Hamlet, and Julius Caesar.
Page 212 - He has an admirable natural love of truth, the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy, the happiest satirical gift of laught-^ing it to scorn. His wit is wonderfully wise and detective ; \ it flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern.
Page 40 - I did not suffer a brave man and an old man to remain a moment in this posture ; but I immediately forgave him.
Page 204 - Of all the works of imagination to which English genius has given origin, the writings of Henry Fielding are perhaps most decidedly and exclusively her own."— Sir Walter Scott.
Page 295 - Pasquin. A Dramatick Satire on the Times : Being the Rehearsal of Two Plays, viz. A Comedy call'd The Election ; and a Tragedy call'd The Life and Death of Common-Sense.
Page 227 - Had I a brother yet living, I should tremble to let him read Thackeray's lecture on Fielding.
Page 20 - On this day the most melancholy sun I had ever beheld arose, and found me awake at my house at Fordhook. By the light of this sun I was, in my own opinion, last to behold and take leave of some of those creatures on whom I doted with a mother-like fondness, guided by nature and passion, and uncured and unhardened by all the doctrine of that philosophical school where I had learned to bear pains and to despise death.
Page 155 - I thought full as ill of it now as he did, and had only read it at an age when I was more subject to be caught by the wit, than able to discern the mischief. Of Joseph Andrews I declared my decided abhorrence. He went so far as to refuse to Fielding the great talents which are ascribed to him, and broke out into a noble panegyric on his competitor Richardson ; who, he said, was as superior to him in talents as in virtue, and whom he pronounced to be the greatest genius that had shed its lustre on...
Page 293 - As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-lane. By his Majesty's Servants.