The Quarterly Review, Volumes 98-99John Murray, 1856 |
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Page 13
... Fielding , was to heighten good qualities by applying to them the terms which denoted their excess - as when you spoke of generosity as prodigality , and of courage as foolhardiness , or it was a com- plimentary irony by which vices ...
... Fielding , was to heighten good qualities by applying to them the terms which denoted their excess - as when you spoke of generosity as prodigality , and of courage as foolhardiness , or it was a com- plimentary irony by which vices ...
Page 14
... Fielding com- plained that the lawyers in his day were particularly liable to the failing , owing to their being a good deal confined to the society of one another . He had known , he said , a very agreeable party spoiled by a couple of ...
... Fielding com- plained that the lawyers in his day were particularly liable to the failing , owing to their being a good deal confined to the society of one another . He had known , he said , a very agreeable party spoiled by a couple of ...
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... Fielding's Miser , as it was personated by tion - the comedies give us enough of Emery , and knows whether he was shud- imperious , domineering , jealous wives , dering or laughing more intensely - especially if they have brought large ...
... Fielding's Miser , as it was personated by tion - the comedies give us enough of Emery , and knows whether he was shud- imperious , domineering , jealous wives , dering or laughing more intensely - especially if they have brought large ...
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... Fielding ; with Notices of his Writings , his Times , and his Contemporaries . By Frederick Lawrence , of the Middle Temple , Bar- rister - at - Law . London , 1855 . MR . LAWRENCE has been a diligent collec- tor of the scattered ...
... Fielding ; with Notices of his Writings , his Times , and his Contemporaries . By Frederick Lawrence , of the Middle Temple , Bar- rister - at - Law . London , 1855 . MR . LAWRENCE has been a diligent collec- tor of the scattered ...
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... Fielding . He had a con- stitution which was keenly alive to sensual delights , and a temperament too gross to be repelled by accessaries which would have shocked finer tastes . Vice , vulgar , dirty , and in rags , was not less welcome ...
... Fielding . He had a con- stitution which was keenly alive to sensual delights , and a temperament too gross to be repelled by accessaries which would have shocked finer tastes . Vice , vulgar , dirty , and in rags , was not less welcome ...
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