 I am sorry for H. Fielding's death, not only as I shall read no more of his writings, but I believe he lost more than others, as no man enjoyed life more than he did, though few had less reason to do so, the highest of his preferment being raking in the...  The Quarterly review - Page 3681826Full view - About this book
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1805 - 296 pages
...believe he lost more than others, as no man enjoyed life more than he did, though few had less reason to do so, the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment to be one of the staff-officers that conduct... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1809 - 458 pages
...believe he lost more than others ; as no man enjoyed life more than he did, though few had less reason to do so ; the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. His happy constitution (even when he had with great pains half demolished it) made him forget every... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1817 - 374 pages
...believe he lost more than others, as no man enjoyed life more than he did, though few had less reason to do so, the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. I should think it a noble* and less nauseous employment to be one of the staff-officers that conduct... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1821 - 846 pages
...writings, but because I believe he lost more than others, as no man enjoyed life more than he did ; though few had less occasion to do so, the highest of his...being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment, to be one of the staff-officers that conduct... | |
 | 1821 - 346 pages
...believe he lost more than others, as no man enjoyed life more than he did, though few had less reason to do so, the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nanseous employment to be one of the staffofficers that conduct... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1821 - 850 pages
...writings, but because I believe he lost more than others, as no man enjoyed life more than he did ; though few had less occasion to do so, the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinke of vice and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment, to be one of the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1825 - 260 pages
...writings, but because I believe he lost more than others, as no man enjoyed life more than he did, though few had less occasion to do so, the highest of his...being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment to be one of the staff-officers that conduct... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1826 - 644 pages
...discovered in his glory (as Lord Orford describes the scene) ' banqueting with a blind man, a wb , and three Irishmen, on some cold mutton and a bone...lesson to those who have been sympathizing with his hot beaded and cold hearted heroes. And the mind that has been bewildered amidst Sterne's contradictious... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Walter Scott - 1831 - 564 pages
...writings, but because I believe he lost more than others, as no man enjoyed life more than he did, though few had less occasion to do so, the highest of his...being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment to be one of the staff-officers that conduct... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1832 - 438 pages
...writings, but because I believe he lost more than others, as no man enjoyed life more than he did; though few had less occasion to do so, the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vico and misery. I should think it a nobler and liv.s nauseous employment to be one of the staff-officers... | |
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