...Bute, and blessing to your little ones. To THE COUNTESS OF BUTE. Oct. I, NS [1749]. MY DEAR CHILD,—I have at length received the box, with the books enclosed,...I think Joseph Andrews better than his Foundling. I believe I was the more struck with it, having at present a Fanny in my own house, not only by the...

...much. " I gave a ridiculous proof of it," she writes, " fitter indeed for my grand-daughter than for myself. I returned from a party on horse-back ; and...I think Joseph Andrews^ better than his Foundling? Lady Mary adds that she was the more struck by the book for having a " Fanny " in her own service,...

...much. " I gave a ridiculous proof of it," she writes, " fitter indeed for my grand-daughter than for myself. I returned from a party on horse-back ; and...to sit up all night reading. I think Joseph Andrews l better than his Foundling" Lady Mary adds that she was the more struck by the book for having a "...

...much. " I gave a ridiculous proof of it," she writes, " fitter indeed for my grand-daughter than for myself. I returned from a party on horse-back ; and...to sit up all night reading. I think Joseph Andrews l better than his Foundling" Lady Mary adds that she was the more struck by the book for having a "...

...of light literature from England having arrived at ten o'clock of the night, she could not but open it and " falling upon Fielding's works, was fool enough...think ' Joseph Andrews ' better than his Foundling " — the reference being, of course, to " Tom Jones"; a judgment not jumping with that of posterity,...

...such as they had seen andJoLownjin real life; and they werelionplussed by Fielding's frank~realism. The great fame of "Tom Jones" belongs to later times,...Ne plus ultra, though she was sorry • "Letters of Shenatone," 1775, p. 88. that Fielding "did not himself perceive that he had made Tom Jones a scoundrel;...

...for their arrival through the British Consul at Venice. On one occasion the box came in her absence. After having rode twenty miles, part of it by moonshine,...works, was fool enough to sit up all night reading. Most of the books that Lady Mary ordered are now completely forgotten. Her list for 1757, chosen from...

...i, NS [1749], to her daughter, the Countess of Bute, on the arrival of Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones: "I have at length received the box, with the books...night reading. I think Joseph Andrews better than his Foundling."1'1 As time went on, Lady Mary had other things to say — not all of them complimentary...

...horseback; and having rode twenty miles, part of it by moonshine, it was ten at night when I found the box. I could not deny myself the pleasure of opening it;...I think Joseph Andrews better than his Foundling." Hannah More, and we get also Johnson1 s measure of the novelist's merits. "Of Joseph Andrews I declared...

...found Lady Bute 's box of books safely arrived. It was ten at night, but she 'could not deny my selfe the pleasure of opening it, and falling upon Fielding's...Works was fool enough to sit up all night reading'. She devoured both Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones, preferring the earlier work to the later, more original...