Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Amelia

London

Printed for A. Millar

1752

"I hope I am not guilty of Profaneness; but in Pursuance of that cheerful Chain of Thoughts with which you have inspired me this Afternoon, I was just now lost in a Reverie, and fancied myself in those blissful Mansions which we hope to enjoy hereafter."

Here our Company diverted themselves, with walking an Hour or two before the Music began. Of all the Seven, Booth alone had ever been here before; so that to all the rest, the Place with it's other Charms, had that of Novelty. When the Music played, Amelia, who stood next to the Doctor, said to him in a Whisper, 'I hope I am not guilty of Profaneness; but in Pursuance of that cheerful Chain of Thoughts with which you have inspired me this Afternoon, I was just now lost in a Reverie, and fancied myself in those blissful Mansions which we hope to enjoy hereafter. The delicious Sweetness of the Place, the enchanting Charms of the Music, and the Satisfaction which appears in every One's Countenance, carried my Soul almost to Heaven in it's Ideas. I could not have, indeed, imagined there had been any thing like this in this World.'
(pp. 301-2)

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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).

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