Fielding

Famous quotes containing the word fielding:

“In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.”
—Henry Fielding (1707–1754)

“[I]f our reader should be neither informed nor amused, we shall be very sorry for his loss of time as well as our own.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“[They] hired a large house as a receptacle for gentlewomen, who either had no fortunes, or so little that it would not support them. For these they made the most comfortable institution [and] provided [them] with all conveniences for rural amusements, a library, musical instruments, and implements for various works.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)