Publication

2004-04-23 - Oxford University Press, USA

Language

English

Word Count

202,000 words, Guess

Page Count

808 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100199257892
  • ISBN-139780199257898
  • Goodreads1452281
  • Open LibraryOL7404115M

First Sentence

FIELDING wrote a short letter to his cousin Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, undated except as 'Wednesday Evening', and saying in part: 'I have presum'd to send your Ladyship a Copy of the Play which you did me the Honor of reading three Acts of last spring: and hope it may meet as light a Censure from your Ladyship's Judgment as then: for while your Goodness permits me (what I esteem the greatest and indeed only Happiness of my Life) to offer my unworthy Performances to your Perusal, it will be entirely from your Sentence that they will be regarded or disesteem'd by Me.'

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