The history of Tom JonesCarey and Lea, 1832 |
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... sure , -a sine - cure . † I'm fittest for- This piece , it appears , was written in the year 1730 ; and it shows at once our author's early ac- quaintance with distress , and the firmness of mind which he supported under it . Of his ...
... sure , -a sine - cure . † I'm fittest for- This piece , it appears , was written in the year 1730 ; and it shows at once our author's early ac- quaintance with distress , and the firmness of mind which he supported under it . Of his ...
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... sure , as your ladyship says , the girl hath always appeared like a good , honest , plain girl , and not vain of her face , forsooth , as some wanton hussies in the neighbourhood are . ' ' You say true , Deborah , ' said Mrs. Brid- get ...
... sure , as your ladyship says , the girl hath always appeared like a good , honest , plain girl , and not vain of her face , forsooth , as some wanton hussies in the neighbourhood are . ' ' You say true , Deborah , ' said Mrs. Brid- get ...
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... sure you , madam hath good luck . ' A se- cond cried , See what it is to be a favour - correction in a Bridewell . ite ! A third , Ay , this comes of her learn- ing . ' Every person made some malicious comment or other on the occasion ...
... sure you , madam hath good luck . ' A se- cond cried , See what it is to be a favour - correction in a Bridewell . ite ! A third , Ay , this comes of her learn- ing . ' Every person made some malicious comment or other on the occasion ...
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... sure of being received with great sies ; on which occasions she constantly ex- complaisance ; indeed , where they might pressed great satisfaction in the doctor's enjoy almost the same advantages of a lib - knowledge , and not much less ...
... sure of being received with great sies ; on which occasions she constantly ex- complaisance ; indeed , where they might pressed great satisfaction in the doctor's enjoy almost the same advantages of a lib - knowledge , and not much less ...
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... sure he hath with his beastly stinking whores . - Yes , you villain , you have defiled my own bed , you have ; and then you have charged me with bullock- ing you in owning the truth . It is very likely , an't please your worship , that ...
... sure he hath with his beastly stinking whores . - Yes , you villain , you have defiled my own bed , you have ; and then you have charged me with bullock- ing you in owning the truth . It is very likely , an't please your worship , that ...
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Page 371 - ... you called it, between him and his mother, where you told me he acted so fine, why, Lord help me, any man, that is, any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same. I know you are only joking with me ; but indeed, madam, though I was never at a play in London, yet I have seen acting before in the country ; and the king for my money; he speaks all his words distinctly, half as loud again as the other. — Anybody may see he is an actor.
Page 370 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Page 224 - Nor will all the qualities I have hitherto given my historian avail him, unless he have what is generally meant by a good heart, and be capable of feeling. The author who will make me weep, says Horace, must first weep himself.
Page 20 - The whispering zephyr and the purling rill? Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?
Page 46 - IN that part of the western division of this kingdom, which is commonly called Somersetshire, there lately lived (and perhaps lives still) a gentleman, whose name was Allworthy, and who might well be called the favourite of both nature and fortune ; for both of these seem to have contended which should bless and enrich him most.
Page 300 - Milton, sweetly tuning the heroic lyre ; fill my ravished fancy with the hopes of charming ages yet to come. Foretel me that some tender maid, whose grandmother is yet unborn, hereafter, when, under the fictitious name of Sophia, she reads the real worth which once existed in my Charlotte, shall from her sympathetic breast send forth the heaving sigh.
Page 62 - Jurisdiction whatever: For as I am, in reality, the Founder of a new Province of Writing, so I am at liberty to make what Laws I please therein.
Page 249 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Page 6 - He had the advantage both in learning and, in my opinion, genius: they both agreed in wanting money in spite of all their friends, and would have wanted it, if their hereditary lands had been as extensive as their imagination; yet each of them [was] so formed for happiness, it is pity he was not immortal.
Page 223 - 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 be learnt only in the world.