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The Works of Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding

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. . .Footnote 1: Some ruffian stept into his father's place, And more than half begot him.—Mary Queen of Scots]

Nood.—[1] Sure he was sent express From Heaven to be the pillar of our state. Though small his body be, so very small A chairman's leg is more than twice as large, Yet is his soul like any mountain big; And as a mountain once brought forth a mouse, [2] So doth this mouse contain a mighty mountain.

[Footnote 1: For Ulamar seems sent express from Heaven, To civilize this rugged Indian clime.—Liberty Asserted]

[Footnote 2: "Omne majus continet in se minus, sed minus non in se majus continere potest," says Scaliger in Thumbo. I suppose he would have cavilled at these beautiful lines in the Earl of Essex:

  ——Thy most inveterate soul,
  That looks through the foul prison of thy body.

And at those of Dryden:

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Community Reviews

Decent book. Probably could have been improved by being shorter.

I believe this to be the best of Fielding's works, although scholars disagree with me almost to a person. I was able, with one Fielding scholar, able to show why the maturity, understanding, depth of feeling and social consciousness in its pages raised it to the height of the uthor's works. And chan

In Fielding’s earlier novels (Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones), the story ends happily with our hero and heroine getting married, but the reader may well wonder what happened to them after their marriage. For all Fielding’s benevolence, the world in which he places his characters is an unsafe one.

Ther

Fielding's single best book is probably Joseph Andrews but this one is notable because he moved on from satirizing the nascent modern novel form and instead used it to peddle his views on certain social issues of the time.

That leads to some rather long dialog passages in which (in the guise of conve

Amelia Harris a beautiful rich girl meets a handsome poor boy our William Booth, naturally they fall madly in love. However her mother a well -to- do widow of course doesn't like the match (conflict needed to makes it interesting).She considers Booth, an officer in the British Army a fortune hunter,

More like 3.5 stars. Slightly sloggish, but seems to me to be one of Fielding better works. Tom Jones being his best known novel, Amelia is a strong counter to the direction and characters represented in Tom Jones. While some may react to what could be perceived as misogyny in the book, I found an o

Um livro que me divertiu mais que o suposto, pois penso que nesta obra o humor talvez não fosse o objectivo do autor, ou pelo menos não nas situações em que me ri... É que durante a leitura foram tantas as vezes que os personagens desmaiaram de "comoção" que para mim começou mesmo a tornar-se ridícu

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