The novels of Tobias Smollett. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of the author [by sir W. Scott, Volume 3 |
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... Dulcinea del Toboso , 513 516 518 PART II . - BOOK II . 521 · IX . Which contains what you will see in the peru- sal of it ,. 524 X. Gives an account of the stratagem which San- cho practised in order to enchant the lady Dul- cinea ...
... Dulcinea del Toboso , 513 516 518 PART II . - BOOK II . 521 · IX . Which contains what you will see in the peru- sal of it ,. 524 X. Gives an account of the stratagem which San- cho practised in order to enchant the lady Dul- cinea ...
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... Dulcinea del Toboso : one of the most renowned adventures of this book , III . Being a continuation of what was imparted to Don Quixote , touching the means for disenchant- ing Dulcinea ; with an account of other sur- prising incidents ...
... Dulcinea del Toboso : one of the most renowned adventures of this book , III . Being a continuation of what was imparted to Don Quixote , touching the means for disenchant- ing Dulcinea ; with an account of other sur- prising incidents ...
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... dulcinea having perform- ed her inquiry to no purpose , imagined there was something preternatural in the circumstance of his vanishing so unaccountably , and began to cross herself with great devotion . She re- turned to her chamber ...
... dulcinea having perform- ed her inquiry to no purpose , imagined there was something preternatural in the circumstance of his vanishing so unaccountably , and began to cross herself with great devotion . She re- turned to her chamber ...
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... dulcinea , with whom he had preconcerted the assigna- tion . Having made the signal , which consisted of two gentle taps on her door , he was imme- diately admitted ; and the Swiss no sooner saw him fairly housed , than he crept softly ...
... dulcinea , with whom he had preconcerted the assigna- tion . Having made the signal , which consisted of two gentle taps on her door , he was imme- diately admitted ; and the Swiss no sooner saw him fairly housed , than he crept softly ...
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... dulcinea's beauty and sweetness of temper , recounting many simple occurrences of her in- fancy and childhood ; and finally , desiring a more circumstantial answer to that which she had sent to him by her friend Catherina . In the ...
... dulcinea's beauty and sweetness of temper , recounting many simple occurrences of her in- fancy and childhood ; and finally , desiring a more circumstantial answer to that which she had sent to him by her friend Catherina . In the ...
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Page 90 - 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 drowne'd honour by the locks ; So he that doth redeem her thence might wear Without corrival all her dignities : But out upon this half-fac'd fellowship ! Wor.
Page 21 - He had formerly imagined, but was now fully persuaded, that the sons of men preyed upon one another, and such was the end and condition of their being. Among the principal figures of life, he observed few or no characters that did not bear a strong analogy to the savage tyrants of the wood.
Page 41 - ... stretching their extravagant arms athwart the gloom," conspired, with the dejection of spirits occasioned by his loss, to disturb his fancy, and raise strange phantoms in his imagination. Although he was not naturally superstitious, his mind began to be invaded with an awful...
Page 485 - I would do what I pleased ; and doing what I pleased, I should have my will ; and having my will, I should be contented ; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired ; and when there is no more to be , desired, there's an end of it ; and let the estate come, and God be with ye ; and let us see it, as one blind man said to another.
Page 4 - Let me not, therefore, be condemned for having chosen my principal character from the purlieus of treachery and fraud, when I declare my purpose is to set him up as a beacon for the benefit of the unexperienced and unwary, who, from the perusal of these memoirs, may learn to avoid the manifold snares with which they are continually surrounded in the paths of life; while those who hesitate on the brink of iniquity may be terrified from plunging into that irremediable gulf, by surveying the deplorable...
Page 60 - He surveyed the neighbouring coast of England with fond and longing eyes, like another Moses, reconnoitring the land of Canaan from the top of Mount Pisgah ; and to such a degree of impatience was he inflamed by the sight, that, instead of proceeding to Calais, he resolved to take his passage directly from Boulogne, even if he should hire a vessel for the purpose.
Page 4 - The impulses of fear, which is the most violent and interesting of all the passions, remain longer than any other upon the memory...
Page 151 - ... 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 414 - I hope, redound to your own advantage. 'When God created our first parent in the terrestrial paradise, we are told by the holy scripture, that he was thrown into a deep sleep, during which, the Almighty took a rib from his left side, and of this, Eve being formed, Adam no sooner awoke and beheld her, than he cried, "This creature is flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone.
Page 42 - ... 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, and, conveying it to the bed in his arms, deposited it in the attitude of a person who sleeps at his ease ; then he extinguished the light, took possession of the place from whence the body had been removed, and, holding a...