The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D.: The adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. Expedition against CarthagenaStirling & Slade...[et. al.], 1820 |
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accordingly acquainted admiration adventurer affection agreeable amuse apothecary appearance began behaviour Boca Chica bosom Captain Castilian character circumstances coffeehouse conduct consequence conversation Count de Melvil Count Melvil countenance daugh daughter declaration desire despair disposition distress Don Diego door endeavours engaged entertained eyes father favour Ferdinand fortune found means friendship gave generosity gentleman hand happy hath heart Heaven hero Hispaniola honour hope Hungarian husband immediately indulged jewels knew lence lover Madam Clement manner ment misery misfortune Monimia mortification mother nature never night observed occasion opportunity passion perceived person physician pleasure portunity possession Presburg present pretended proposal racter rapture received Renaldo replied resolved seemed sentiments Serafina Sir Chaloner Ogle soon sooner sorrow soul spirit stranger suffered tears tender thought tion took transports treache Tunbridge Tyrolese understrapper Vienna virtue whole wife Wilhelmina wretched young lady
Popular passages
Page 228 - By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Page 101 - This declaration had its effect upon the withered Hecate, who, with many supplications for mercy and forgiveness, promised to guide him in safety to a certain village at the distance of two leagues, where he might lodge in security, and be provided with a fresh horse, or other convenience, for pursuing his intended route.
Page ix - A novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or success, without a principal personage to attract the attention, unite the incidents, unwind the clue of the labyrinth, and at last close the scene, by virtue of his own importance.
Page 464 - This picture cannot fail to be shocking to the humane reader, especially when he is informed, that while those miserable objects cried in vain for assistance, and actually perished for want of proper attendance, every ship of war in the fleet could have spared a couple of surgeons for their relief; and many young gentlemen of that profession solicited their captains in vain for leave to go and administer help to the sick and wounded. The necessities of the poor people were well known ; the remedy...
Page 101 - Every whisper of the wind through the thickets was swelled into the hoarse menaces of murder, the shaking of the boughs was construed into the brandishing of poniards, and every shadow of a tree became the apparition of a ruffian eager for blood.
Page 388 - ... and of hearing: he had mechanically raised himself upon one knee, with his body advancing forwards; and in this attitude he gazed with a look, through which his soul seemed eager to escape. To his view, thus strained upon vacant space, in a few minutes appeared the figure of a woman arrayed in white, with a veil that covered her face, and flowed down upon her back and shoulders...
Page 102 - Perhaps, too, he had motives of conscience, that dissuaded him from bearing witness against a set of people whose principles did not much differ from his own. Influenced by such considerations, he yielded to the first importunity of the beldame, whom he dismissed at a very small distance from the village, after he had earnestly exhorted her to quit such an atrocious course of life, and atone for her past crimes, by sacrificing her associates to the demands of justice. She did not fail to vow a perfect...
Page 99 - ... underwent a severe paroxysm of dismay and distraction. His spirits were agitated into a state of fermentation that produced a species of resolution akin to that which is inspired by brandy or other strong liquors, and, by an impulse that seemed supernatural, he was immediately hurried into measures for his own preservation. What upon a less interesting occasion his imagination durst not propose, he now executed without scruple or remorse. He undressed the corpse that lay bleeding among the straw,...
Page 166 - ... her very much disordered by this mischance, insisted upon her drinking a large glass of Canary to quiet the perturbation of her spirits. This is a season, which of all others, is most propitious to the attempts of an artful lover; and justifies the metaphorical maxim of fishing in troubled waters. There is an affinity and short transition betwixt all the violent passions that agitate the human mind: they are all false perspectives, which though they magnify, yet perplex and render indistinct...
Page 99 - ... being unshrouded, directed their aim to the supposed sleeper ; and he that held it thrust a poniard to his heart. The force of the blow made a compression on the chest, and a sort of groan issued from the windpipe of the defunct...