The History of Henry Fielding, Volume 3Yale University Press, 1918 |
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Page 295 - A | Comedy. | As it is Acted at the | Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. | By His Majesty's Servants.
Page 18 - God, who placed me here, will do what he pleases with me hereafter, and he knows best what to do. May he bless you.
Page 321 - A | PROPOSAL | FOR | Making an Effectual Provision | FOR THE | POOR, FOR Amending their MORALS, | AND FOR | Rendering them useful MEMBERS of the | SOCIETY.
Page 227 - Cain, of Byron, though the latter is a magnificent poem, and read the rest fearlessly ; that must indeed be a depraved mind which can gather evil from Henry VIII., from Richard III., from Macbeth, and Hamlet, and Julius Caesar.
Page 227 - Had I a brother yet living, I should tremble to let him read Thackeray's lecture on Fielding.
Page 24 - On this day the most melancholy sun I had ever beheld arose, and found me awake at my house at Fordhook. By the light of this sun I was, in my own opinion, last to behold and take leave of some of those creatures on whom I doted with a mother-like fondness, guided by nature and passion, and uncured and unhardened by all the doctrine of that philosophical school where I had learned to bear pains and to despise death.
Page 335 - An Act for the better preventing Thefts and Robberies ; and for regulating Places of public Entertainment, and punishing Persons keeping disorderly Houses," as relates to payments to 27 G.
Page 155 - I thought full as ill of it now as he did, and had only read it at an age when I was more subject to be caught by the wit, than able to discern the mischief. Of Joseph Andrews I declared my decided abhorrence. He went so far as to refuse to Fielding the great talents which are ascribed to him, and broke out into a noble panegyric on his competitor Richardson ; who, he said, was as superior to him in talents as in virtue, and whom he pronounced to be the greatest genius that had shed its lustre on...
Page 304 - Property, That being cut into several | Pieces, each Piece becomes a perfect Animal, | or Vegetable, as complete as that of which it | was originally only a Part. | — | Collected | By PETRUS GUALTERUS, | But not Published till after His Death.
Page 138 - When he had contracted to bring on a play, or a farce, it is well known by many of his friends now living, that he would go home rather late from a tavern, and would, the next morning, deliver a scene to the players written upon the papers, which had wrapped the tobacco, in which he so much delighted.