Lives of the Novelists, Volume 1A.M. Schlesinger, 1825 - 4 pages |
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... father the general . Henry was the only son of this marriage ; but he had four sisters of the full blood , of whom Sarah , the third , was distinguished as an authoress by the History of David Simple , and other literary attempts ...
... father the general . Henry was the only son of this marriage ; but he had four sisters of the full blood , of whom Sarah , the third , was distinguished as an authoress by the History of David Simple , and other literary attempts ...
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... Fathers was lost by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams , and , when re- covered , was acted , after the author's death , for the benefit of his family . An anecdote respect- ing the carelessness with which Fielding re- garded his theatrical ...
... Fathers was lost by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams , and , when re- covered , was acted , after the author's death , for the benefit of his family . An anecdote respect- ing the carelessness with which Fielding re- garded his theatrical ...
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... He never stirred or asked them to sit . Rigby , who had seen him come so often to beg a guinea of Sir C. Wil- liams , and Bathurst , at whose father's he had lived for victuals , understood that dignity as little , 29.
... He never stirred or asked them to sit . Rigby , who had seen him come so often to beg a guinea of Sir C. Wil- liams , and Bathurst , at whose father's he had lived for victuals , understood that dignity as little , 29.
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... father of Tom Jones , there could have been no adequate motive assigned for keeping his birth secret from a man so reasonable and compassionate as All- worthy . But even the high praise due to the con- struction and arrangement of the ...
... father of Tom Jones , there could have been no adequate motive assigned for keeping his birth secret from a man so reasonable and compassionate as All- worthy . But even the high praise due to the con- struction and arrangement of the ...
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... father of the Eng- lish novel ; and in his powers of strong and national humour , and forcible yet natural exhibition of character , unapproached ast yet , even by his successful followers , The following is a list of the works of ...
... father of the Eng- lish novel ; and in his powers of strong and national humour , and forcible yet natural exhibition of character , unapproached ast yet , even by his successful followers , The following is a list of the works of ...
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