Note 8 — Chapter I · THE SATIRIC SPIRIT
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Fielding: Tom Jones: Dedication to George Lyttleton, VI, 5.
He also says, in The Covent Garden Journal: “Few men, I believe, do more admire the works of those great masters who have sent their satire (if I may use the expression) laughing into the world. Such are the great triumvirate, Lucian, Cervantes, and Swift.”