Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 4 AIL 0339 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Fielding's Praise Applied to a Thief
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The idea
That vocabulary of greatness is then fastened to Jonathan Wild, a thief-taker and criminal. Fielding calls him the illustrious person whose history we now undertake, given the greatest and most shining endowments. The praise is unchanged; only its object makes it savage.
In practice
The praise never drops its register.
Where people slip
The object supplies the attack.
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