"What a Happiness have you painted to my Imagination!"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)


Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Millar
Date
1752
Metaphor
"What a Happiness have you painted to my Imagination!"
Metaphor in Context
'I protest,' said she, 'you are become Farmer Booth, indeed. What a Happiness have you painted to my Imagination! You put me in Mind of a News-Paper, where my Lady such-a-one is delivered of a Son, to the great Joy of some illustrious Family.'
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Prose)
Citation
13 entries in ESTC (1752, 1762, 1771, 1775, 1777, 1780, 1790, 1793).

See Amelia. By Henry Fielding, 4 vols. (London: A. Millar, 1752). <Link to ECCO>

Reading Henry Fielding, Amelia, ed. David Blewett (London: Penguin Books, 1987).
Date of Entry
03/11/2005

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.