The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 90
f dis-tinguished parents, and well educated. His namewas Henry Fielding, and he was born in Somer-setshire on April 22, 1707. Being fond of the pleasures of life, and dis-inclined to work or to study too closely, Fieldingleft the University of Leyden, in Holland, andwent to London when he was… … FAMOUS ENGLISH AUTHORS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 73 74 A FEW MORE GREAT STORY-TELLERS had a small fortune; but this he soon contrivedto spend, and at thirty-three he became a bar-rister, though it was chiefly by writing plays thathe made his living. His wife died in 1743, and hethen married a…
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