"Slipslop" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... consoling himself for the loss of his AEschylus, by suddenly recollecting that he could not read it if he had it, because it is dark, are among the finest touches of naivete. The night-adventures at Lady Booby's with Beau Didapper, and the amiable Slipslop, are the most ludicrous; and that with the huntsman, who draws off the hounds from the poor Parson, because they would be spoiled by following vermin, the most profound. Fielding did not often repeat himself; but Dr. Harrison, in Amelia, may be considered as a variation of ...
— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin |
