The novels of Henry Fielding ... complete in one volume. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of the author [by sir W. Scott].1821 |
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... affections which the foregoing scene may have raised in the mind of a good - natured reader , 232 | VII . Containing better ... affection , X. Containing several matters , natural enough , perhaps , but low , · 257 • 259 261 262 XI . The ...
... affections which the foregoing scene may have raised in the mind of a good - natured reader , 232 | VII . Containing better ... affection , X. Containing several matters , natural enough , perhaps , but low , · 257 • 259 261 262 XI . The ...
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... affection ; I rather impute what you say to your secrecy , a very commendable quality , and what I am far from being angry with you for . Nothing can be more unworthy 66 " in a young man than to betray any intimacies with the ladies ...
... affection ; I rather impute what you say to your secrecy , a very commendable quality , and what I am far from being angry with you for . Nothing can be more unworthy 66 " in a young man than to betray any intimacies with the ladies ...
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... affection , with its pernicious consequences : she therefore applied herself again to the bell , and re - summoned Mrs Slipslop into her presence ; who again returned , and was told by her mistress , that she had considered better of ...
... affection , with its pernicious consequences : she therefore applied herself again to the bell , and re - summoned Mrs Slipslop into her presence ; who again returned , and was told by her mistress , that she had considered better of ...
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... affection . She was two years only younger than our hero . They had been acquainted from their infancy , and had conceived a very early liking for each other , which had grown to such a degree of affection , that Mr Adams had with much ...
... affection . She was two years only younger than our hero . They had been acquainted from their infancy , and had conceived a very early liking for each other , which had grown to such a degree of affection , that Mr Adams had with much ...
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... affection ? Can he give me an equipage , or any of those things which Bellar- mine will make me mistress of ? How vast is the difference between being the wife of a poor coun- sellor , and the wife of one of Bellarmine's for- tune ! If ...
... affection ? Can he give me an equipage , or any of those things which Bellar- mine will make me mistress of ? How vast is the difference between being the wife of a poor coun- sellor , and the wife of one of Bellarmine's for- tune ! If ...
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Page 442 - cries Jones, "dost thou take to be such a coward here besides thyself?" "Nay, you may call me coward if you will; but, if that little man there upon the stage is not frightened, I never saw any man frightened in my life.
Page 443 - He the best player!" cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then, to be sure, in that scene...
Page 442 - Our critic was now pretty silent till the play, which Hamlet introduces before the king. This he did not at first understand, till Jones explained it to him; but he no sooner entered into the spirit of it, than he began to bless himself that he had never committed murder. Then turning to Mrs. Miller, he asked her, "If she did not imagine the King looked as if he was touched; though he is," said he, "a good actor, and doth all he can to hide it.
Page 183 - The side that's next the sun. Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her chin (Some bee had stung it newly) ; But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face; I durst no more upon them gaze Than on the sun in July. Her mouth...
Page 275 - Oh woman ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee To temper man : we had been brutes without you ! Angels are painted fair to look like you : There's in you all, that we believe of" heaven ; Amazing brightness, purity and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
Page 142 - Reader, take care. I have unadvisedly led thee to the top of as high a hill as Mr. Allworthy's, and how to get thee down without breaking thy neck, I do not well know.
Page 7 - As to the character of Adams, as it is the most glaring in the whole, so I conceive it is not to be found in any book now extant It is designed a character of perfect simplicity; and as the goodness of his heart will recommend him to the good-natured, so I hope it will excuse me to the gentlemen of his cloth; for whom, while they are worthy of their sacred order, no man can possibly have a greater respect.
Page 139 - Reader, I think proper, before we proceed any farther together, to acquaint thee, that I intend to digress, through this whole history, as often as I see occasion; of which I am myself a better judge than any pitiful critic whatever.
Page 306 - Again, there is another sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had by conversation. So necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants, whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges, and among books: for however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can only be learnt in the world.
Page 443 - Ay, ay, you may sing. You had rather sing than work, I believe.' Upon Hamlet's taking up the skull, he cried out : ' Well ! it is strange to see how fearless some men are ; I never could bring myself to touch anything belonging to a dead man on any account.