FieldingMacmillan, 1911 - 218 páginas He had discovered its scope and possibilities only when it was too late to re-cast his original design; and though Joseph Andrews has all the freshness and energy of a first attempt in a new direction, it has also the manifest disadvantages of a mixed conception and an uncertain plan. No one had perceived these defects more plainly than the author; and in Tom Jones he set himself diligently to perfect his new-found method. He believed that he foresaw a "new Province of Writing," of which he regarded himself with justice as the founder and lawgiver; and in the "prolegomenous, or introductory Chapters" to each book--those delightful resting-spaces where, as George Eliot says, "he seems to bring his arm-chair to the proscenium and chat with us in all the lusty ease of his fine English." |
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A. C. BENSON acted admirable afterwards Amelia Andrew Millar appears Author's Farce Bath biographers Booth Bow Street burlesque called Champion chapter character Cibber comedy contemporary Covent Garden daughter David Simple dedication doubt Drury Lane East Stour edition essays Eton famous father February Fielding's friends Garrick gentleman Henry Fielding Hogarth Honour Humour Jacobite's Journal John Jones Joseph Andrews justice Keightley Lady Mary Lawrence letter Leyden Lisbon living London Lord Lyme Lyttelton marriage Millar Miscellanies Miss Modbury Molière Murphy never novel Pamela pamphlet paper Parson Adams Pasquin passage piece play portrait Preface probably published Ralph Allen reference Register Richardson Salisbury Sarah Fielding satire says scarcely scenes seems Sophia Western speaks Squire stage story theatre Theophilus Cibber Thumb tion Tom Jones Tom Thumb Town Voyage to Lisbon Walpole wife writing written young