Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding
Henry Fieldingwas an English novelist and dramatist best known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones. Additionally, he holds a significant place in the history of law enforcement, having used his authority as a magistrate to foundwhat some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners. His younger sister, Sarah, also became a successful writer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 April 1707
may serious ridiculous
A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.
ridiculous source
The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation
animal proud ridiculous
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
faults vices ridiculous
Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.
writing sides ridiculous
What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint.
death dying
It has often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
animal composed husband monstrous
Composed that monstrous animal a husband and wife.
agreeable blind commend flattery fool knave receive
Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms
clergy men
For clergy are men as well as other folks.
compliment great greater imagined paid profundity
Now, in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
compliment english-novelist great greater imagined paid profundity
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
english-novelist great greater imagined profundity
The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
death
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
english-novelist fools-and-foolishness
One fool at least in every married couple.