Fielding's rapprochement with Walpole in late 1741.(Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole)(Critical Essay)

Philological Quarterly | January 1, 2001| | Copyright

During the period 1736-April 1741, (1) no one harried Walpole so effectively, with so much brazen ingenuity and gusto, as Henry Fielding. The Great Man figures variously in Fielding's writings as "a gross corrupt Carcase," "Brass," "Guts," a "notorious Quack," "the Devil," a "Leech," a "Viper," "Mammon," and the "Beast" of Revelation. (2) Equally contemptible in Fielding's eyes are Walpole's propagandists. They are "a Set of Ruffians, hired in Disguise and the Dark," who support themselves by offering "Incense to Baal"; the writer who "takes any Reward of [Walpole] ... ...

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