The novels of Tobias Smollett. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of the author [by sir W. Scott, Volume 2 |
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... French gentleman of talents and erudition has undertaken to translate it into that language , and I have promised to supply him with corrections . " As a powerful political party were insulted , and , as they alleged , misrepresented in ...
... French gentleman of talents and erudition has undertaken to translate it into that language , and I have promised to supply him with corrections . " As a powerful political party were insulted , and , as they alleged , misrepresented in ...
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... French , and Italian languages ; but what he chiefly professed was the pronunciation of the English tongue , after a ... words , eyed me with great attention , walking round me several times , and muttering , " O Christ ! O Christ ! fat ...
... French , and Italian languages ; but what he chiefly professed was the pronunciation of the English tongue , after a ... words , eyed me with great attention , walking round me several times , and muttering , " O Christ ! O Christ ! fat ...
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... French and Italian , with some degree of warmth and surprise , by the dear ... words of which I will also explain , that thou mayest , by comparing one ... French ? To which question , I answered in the affirmative : She asked , if I was ...
... French and Italian , with some degree of warmth and surprise , by the dear ... words of which I will also explain , that thou mayest , by comparing one ... French ? To which question , I answered in the affirmative : She asked , if I was ...
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... language , and the reputation of a good seaman : The ship he belonged to was ordered home to France , where she was laid up , as unfit for ser- vice , and he was received on board of one of Monsieur D'Antin's squadron , in quality of ...
... language , and the reputation of a good seaman : The ship he belonged to was ordered home to France , where she was laid up , as unfit for ser- vice , and he was received on board of one of Monsieur D'Antin's squadron , in quality of ...
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... France , at all events . I was confirmed in this resolution , by a reverend priest , who passing by at this time , and over- hearing us speak English , accosted us in the same language , telling us , he was our country- man , and ...
... France , at all events . I was confirmed in this resolution , by a reverend priest , who passing by at this time , and over- hearing us speak English , accosted us in the same language , telling us , he was our country- man , and ...
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Page xii - While the warm blood bedews my veins, And unimpair'd remembrance reigns, Resentment of my country's fate Within my filial breast shall beat ; And, spite of her insulting foe, My sympathizing verse shall flow : " Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn " Thy banish'd peace, thy laurels torn.
Page xl - It is, however, chiefly in his profusion, which amounts almost to prodigality, that we recognize the superior richness of Smollett's fancy. He never shews the least desire to make the most either of a character, or a situation, or an adventure, but throws them together with a carelessness which argues unlimited confidence in his own powers. Fielding pauses to explain the principles of his art, and to congratulate himself and his readers on the felicity with which he constructs his narrative, or makes...
Page 68 - ... space was allotted for each with his bed and bedding; and deprived of the light of day, as well as of fresh air; breathing nothing but a noisome atmosphere of the morbid steams exhaling from their own excrements and diseased bodies, devoured with vermin hatched in the filth that surrounded them, and destitute of every convenience necessary for people in that helpless condition.
Page 362 - As for the motto, or what you call it, 1 leave that to you and Mr. Jolter, who are scholars ; but I do desire, that it may not be engraved in the Greek or Latin lingos, and much less in the French, which I abominate, but in plain English, that, when the angel comes to pipe all hands, at the great day, he may know that I am a British man, and speak to me in my mother tongue.
Page 88 - But the most remarkable parts of his furniture were a mask on his face and white gloves on his hands, which did not seem to be put on with an intention to be pulled off occasionally, but were fixed with a curious ring on the little finger of each hand.
Page 138 - The best man among the ancients is said to have entertained that passion ; one of the wisest of their legislators has permitted the indulgence of it in his commonwealth ; the most celebrated poets have not scrupled to avow it. At this day it prevails not only over all the...
Page xxxviii - ... attendance as a servant, and beating him when the dice ran against him, is not to be named in one day with the open-hearted, goodhumoured, and noble-minded Tom Jones, whose libertinism (one particular omitted) is perhaps rendered but too amiable by his good qualities. We believe there are few readers who are not disgusted with the miserable reward assigned to Strap in the closing chapter of the novel. Five hundred pounds (scarce the value of the goods he had presented to his master), and the...
Page xxvii - Travels through France and Italy, containing Observations on Character, Customs, Religion, Government, Police, Commerce, Arts, and Antiquities, with a particular Description of the Town, Territory, and Climate of Nice ; to which is added, a Register of the Weather, kept during a Residence of Eighteen Months in that City ; in 2 vols.
Page 64 - My spirit began to accommodate itself to my beggarly fate, and I became so mean as to go down towards Wapping, with an intention to inquire for an old school-fellow, who, I understood, had got the command of a small coasting vessel, then in the river, and implore his assistance.
Page xxix - Between friends, I am now convinced that my brain was in some measure affected; for I had a kind of coma vigil upon me from April to November without intermission. In consideration of these circumstances, I know you will forgive all my peevishness and discontent ; and tell good Mrs. Moore, to whom I present my cordial respects, that, with regard to me, she has as yet seen nothing but the wrong side of the tapestry.