...Misc. Works, i. 4. Richardson, five years after Tom Jones was published, wrote (Corres, v. 275): — 'Its run is over, even with us. Is it true that France had virtue enough to refuse a license for such a profligate performance ?' 3 Mr. Samuel Paterson, eminent for his knowledge of books....

...and God's providence, have been my whole reliance." In the Postscript comes a thrust at Tom Jones. " Tom Jones is a dissolute book. Its run is over, even with us. Is it true, that France has virtue enough to refuse a licence for such a profligate performance ? " This story has the support...

...title of the Common Garden,2) contributing to his own overthrow. (Corr. lll, 27) Tom Jones (1749). Tom Jones is a dissolute book. Its run is over, even...Is it true, that France had virtue enough to refuse the licence of such a profligate performance? (Corr. v, 275) In his Tom Jones, his hero is made a natural...

...years after this he writes to his French translator : " Tom Jones is a dissolute work ; its run is over with us. Is it true that France had virtue enough to refuse a license for such a profligate performance ? " This rumour M. Dufreval had sorrowfully to confess is...

...true "that France had virtue enough to refuse a licence for such a profligate performance" and added: "Tom Jones is a dissolute book. Its run is over even with us." The reply, from which I have already quoted a phrase, could have brought little comfort to Richardson....

...true "that France had virtue enough to refuse a licence for such a profligate performance" and added: "Tom Jones is a dissolute book. Its run is over even with us." The reply, from which I have already quoted a phrase, could have brought little comfort to Richardson....

...true "that France had virtue enough to refuse a licence for such a profligate performance" and added: "Tom Jones is a dissolute book. Its run is over even with us." The reply, from which I have already quoted a phrase, could have brought little comfort to Richardson....

...theirs. Rejoicing over his rival's misfortune, he wrote to JB Defreval in Paris (January 21, 1750, OS), "Tom Jones is a dissolute book. Its run is over, even...it true, that France had virtue enough to refuse a license for such a profligate performance?"86 Presumably the "arret" was operative only a short time;...

...in attacking his rival, and in a letter to M. Defreval, one of his French correspondents, he wrote: '•Tom 'Jones is a dissolute book. Its run is over...Is it true that France had virtue enough to refuse to license so profligate a performance?" This last question arose from the almost incredible fact that...