. The complete works of Henry Fielding, esq., with an essay on the life, genius and achievement of the author. qv. Sat. LO N BONtPiurf for j. Watts at tic Printiog-Office^jifc Jtf BCCXXXH, l?iSce li. 6^; TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ROBERT WALPOLE KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER SiRj—While the peace of Europe, and the lives and for-tunes of so great a part of mankind depend on your counsels,it may be thought an offence against the public good to divertby trifles of this nature any of those moments which are sosacred to the welfare of our country. But however ridiculed or explod
. The complete works of Henry Fielding, esq., with an essay on the life, genius and achievement of the author. qv. Sat. LO N BONtPiurf for j. Watts at tic Printiog-Office^jifc Jtf BCCXXXH, l?iSce li. 6^; TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ROBERT WALPOLE KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER SiRj—While the peace of Europe, and the lives and for-tunes of so great a part of mankind depend on your counsels,it may be thought an offence against the public good to divertby trifles of this nature any of those moments which are sosacred to the welfare of our country. But however ridiculed or exploded the muses may be, in anage when their greatest favourites are liable to the censureand correction of every boy or idiot, who shall have it in hispower to satisfy the wantonness of an evil heart at the expenseof the reputation and interest of the best poet, yet has thisscience been esteemed, honoured, protected, and often pro-fessed by the greatest persons of antiquity. Nations and theMuses have generally enjoyed the same protectors. The reason of this is obvious: as the best poets have owedtheir reward to the gre
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