The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling, Volumen3

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A. Millar, 1749

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Página 311 - 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.
Página 311 - In reality, no man can paint a distress well which he doth not feel while he is painting it; nor do I doubt but that the most pathetic and affecting scenes have been writ with tears. In the same manner it is with the ridiculous. I am convinced I never make my reader laugh heartily but where I have laughed before him...
Página 144 - As we have no public notoriety, no concurrent testimony, no records to support and corroborate what we deliver, it becomes us to keep within the limits not only of possibility, but of probability too ; and this more especially in painting what is greatly good and amiable.
Página 150 - The great art of all poetry is to mix truth with fiction, in order to join the credible with the surprising.

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