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Lastly, there were the sentiments which the indictment declared "bad and contemptible." A reader passing from "Tom Jones" to "Amelia" misses the initial chapters which characterize the former novel. Fielding now had no time to write essays so formal as those. In "Amelia" his disquisitions, if we except the exordium, are scattered through the volumes, more as in "Joseph Andrews." For the most part they rise naturally out of a scene or a character. An obvious exception to this general statement is the conversation between Booth and "the very great writer" who fabricated, as Dr. Johnson is said to have done, parliamentary speeches for the magazines. Without any preparation for it the young lieutenant suddenly displays a fund of ancient and modern learning never possessed by a man of his age. It is the mature Fielding who here renders comparative estimates of the writers he read most, criticising by the way the translations of Lucian at a time when he was planning one of his own. More appropriately Dr. Harrison became Fielding's mouthpiece; to this scholar he could transfer his own opinions on the affairs of church and state with perfect consistency. Almost always, whether Fielding spoke through his characters or in his own person, his thought and emotion rose to the highest plane. His little essay on the art of life, with which the novel opens, is as true as it is impressive. The dedication to Ralph Allen is among the finest memorials ever erected to friendship. It is here that Fielding expressed the hope that he might never be so unfortunate as to survive his benefactor.

And yet, Fielding said some things which he wished away, either because they were lacking in good taste or because they were out of keeping with the character who uttered them. Booth he did not disturb; but Dr. Harrison was shorn

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