13 Metaphors for fieldings

Judged by his ability alone, Fielding was the greatest of this new group of novel writers, and one of the most artistic that our literature has produced.

" Fielding, he says, was the inventor of a cant phrase, "Goodness of heart, which means little more than the virtue of a horse or a dog."

Copley Fielding cannot be a bad artist; Prout cannot be a bad artist; Nash cannot be a bad artist; De Vint, Stanfield, Reinagle, Calcott, none of these can be called bad artists; yet not one of these gentlemen, eminent as they are, produce any thing like Turner's drawings.

FIELDING, COPLEY, an eminent English water-colour painter; became secretary and treasurer and finally president of the Society of Water-Colour Painters (1787-1855).

Before his appointment to the village school, he had acted for a time as the squire's secretary; but it had never been more than a temporary arrangement and it had come to a speedy end when Mrs. Fielding became mistress of the Court.

"Three times he has said to me 'That George Fielding is a better man than I am.'

Henry Fielding, was Lady Mary's second cousin; but there had never been any intimacy between them, although some acquaintance.

He took Fielding's masterpiece, degraded it, and debased it; he wrote to the papers that Fielding was a genius in spite of his coarseness, thereby inferring that he was a much greater genius since he had sojourned in this Scotch house of literary ill-fame.

Charlotte Bronté said that Fielding was the vulture and Thackeray the eagle.

There seems to be an extraordinary idea abroad that Fielding was in some way an immoral or offensive writer.

Fielding is also a master of plot.

A gentleman, a few days ago, observed that Fielding was a great encourager of thieving.

The Convalescent Home belonged to the Fieldings, and the Fieldings were her dearest friends who had been turned into relations by her father's marriage.

13 Metaphors for  fieldings