"<i>Sophia</i> soon returned to his Imagination, and allayed the Joy of his Triumph with no less bitter Pangs than a good-natured General must feel when he surveys the bleeding Heaps, at the Price of whose Blood he hath purchased his Laurels; for thousands of tender Ideas lay murdered before our Conqueror."
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Over 75 entries in the ESTC (1749, 1750, 1751, 1759, 1763, 1764, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1773, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1780, 1782, 1783, 1784, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1797, 1800).<br>
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See <u>The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes. By Henry Fielding.</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1749). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111383496&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:pr:Z000028997:0">Link to LION</a>&gt;<br>
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See also three-volume Dublin edition in ECCO-TCP &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004794856.0001.001">Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004794856.0001.002">Vol. II</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004794856.0001.003">Vol. III</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading <u>The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling</u>. Norton Critical Edition, ed. Sheridan W. Baker. (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1973).