...discussion of the character, purpose, and limitations of his new form, saying that "as I am in reality, the founder of a new province of writing, so I am at liberty to make what laws I please therein." (Book II, 1.) But, of course, it would be foolish to take these claims at their face value. However...

...was offered, and declined, the office of poet-laureate (Gosse) | Ilove, and am loved by, my wife | these laws my readers, whom I consider as my subjects, are bound to believe in and to obey (Fielding) | many a dun had she talked to, and turned away from her father's door (Thackeray) usw....

...look on myself as accountable to any court of critical jurisdiction whatever: for as I am, in reality, the founder of a new province of writing, so I am at liberty to make what laws I please therein" (T. Jones: Book II, Ch. 1). Zoo gaat aan de beschrijving van Sophia Western (Book IV, Ch. II), ook...

...He further claims (Chapter i. Book II.) that' as I am, in reality, the founder of a new province in writing, so I am at liberty to make what laws' I please therein.' The freedom he claims he exercises. To give one example only : Reader, take care. I have unadvisedly...

...look on myself as accountable to any Court of Critical Jurisdiction whatever: For as I am, in reality, the Founder of a new Province of Writing, so I am at liberty to make what Laws I please therein.1 And these Laws, my Readers, whom I consider as my Subjects, are bound to believe in and to...

...prefer to live outside the law, as Fielding did in writing Tom Jones (1749): 'as I am, in reality, the founder of a new province of writing, so I am at liberty to make what laws I please therein'; or in the more aggressive style of William Carlos Williams: ' I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever...

...look on myself as accountable to any court of critical jurisdiction whatever; for as I am, in reality, the founder of a new province of writing, so I am at liberty to make what laws I please therein." — FIELDING, Tom /ones Enter Time, the Chorus Impute it not a crime To me or my swift passage, that...

...reader of Tom Jones must be initiated into the workings of this creation: "For as I am, in reality, the Founder of a new Province of Writing, so I am...subjects, are bound to believe in and to obey...." (II, i). Indeed, TQJTI Jones may not just depict the progress toward maturity of its protagonist, it...

...a word, if my history sometimes seems to stand still, and sometimes to fly ... As I am, in reality, the founder of a new province of writing, so I am...consider as my subjects, are bound to believe in and obey ... Henry Fielding Tom Jones n, i The historian, like the novelist - and unlike the newsman or...

...are inclined to follow the example of the narrator of Tom Jones, who proclaims: "I am, in reality, the Founder of a new Province of Writing, so I am at liberty to make what laws I please therein." 6 Believing that experience seldom conforms to traditional aesthetic patterns, whether of comedy or...