Novel, April 1st, 2005
In a signature gesture, Fielding describes Lady Booby's love with a figure that finally literalizes her passion by leaving it unsaid:
Not the Great Rich, who turns Men into Monkeys, Wheelbarrows, and whatever best humours his Fancy, hath so strangely metamorphosed the human Shape; nor the Great Cibber, who confounds all Number, Gender and breaks through every Rule of Grammar at his Will, hath so distorted the English Language, as thou [love ] dost metamorphose and distort the human Senses ... thou can'st make a Mole-hill appear as a Mountain; a Jew's-Harp sound like a Trumpet; and a Dazy smel...
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