The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq;: ... continued

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A. Millar, 1766
 

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Página 134 - ... raise our compassion rather than our abhorrence. Indeed, nothing can be of more moral use than the imperfections which are seen in examples of this kind ; since such form a kind of surprise, more apt to affect and dwell upon our minds, than the faults of very vicious and wicked persons.
Página 298 - Come, thou that hast inspired thy Aristophanes, thy Lucian, thy Cervantes, thy Rabelais, thy Moliere, thy Shakespeare, thy Swift, thy Marivaux, fill my pages with humour ; till mankind learn the good-nature to laugh only at the follies of others, and the humility to grieve at their own.
Página 98 - ... by invention is really meant no more (and so the word signifies) than discovery, or finding out ; or, to explain it at large, a quick and sagacious penetration into the true essence of all the objects of our contemplation.
Página 99 - Again there is another sort of knowledge, beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had by conversation. So necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges, and among books...

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