Fielding
George Saintsbury
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Feb. 1, 2018)
Excerpt from FieldingParson Trulliber in his pupil's first novel. If so, the reverend Eumaeus certainly caaled vurst at a genius which was in the future to Show no common faculty of answering calls on it. But after his mother's death the boy was sent to Eton. The exact period of his stay belongs to the pretty frequent uncertainties of his life; but it is put, with fair probability, at or,about from 1718 to 1725. Although it is improbable that he distinguished himself as what has been called by later generations (usually with opprobrious intention) a sap, a grind one of the persons who hurt the feelings of the com munity by excessive and offensive diligence - it is quite certain from the result that he did not wholly waste his time at school. For he gives constant evidence in his books of the possession of a kind of scholarship which, however unscientific it may seem to the present day, is far more solid and, above all, far more lz'lemry than that which any but a very few schoolboys carry away with them nowadays. But we really know nothing about his school days except that, as usual, he made friends there, the most noteworthy being George, afterwards Lord, Lyttelton, who was later of much use to him, and the bee-in-bonneted and rather reprobate, but witty and by no means unamiable, hanbury-williams.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.