There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.


The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected... To which is Added Some Account of His Life (ed. 1783)

Henry Fielding Quotes

There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into...

There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into...

There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into...

There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into...