![]() at earnest desire, instructed her in Latin, in which, to do justice to her genius, she had so improved herself, that she was become a better scholar than her master.” Ellipsis is not needed.įielding tells us, “ certain schoolmaster. My reader may please to remember he hath been informed that Jenny Jones had lived some years with a certain schoolmaster, who had, at her earnest desire, instructed her in Latin, in which, to do justice to her genius, she had so improved herself, that she was become a better scholar than her master.įielding’s Jenny Jones “lived some years with a certain schoolmaster, who had, at her earnest desire, instructed her in Latin.”īecause “lived,” the first word of your quotation, is lowercased, it is evident that Fielding’s sentence does not begin with it. Suppose the full sentence from which your quotation is taken is from Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones: ![]() You have more than one way to indicate that your quotation does not begin at the start of the sentence you are quoting.
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