The works of Henry Fielding, ed. with a biogr. essay by L. Stephen, Volumen21882 |
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... present to be more than usually threatened with them , I shall here venture to mention some qualifications , every one of which are in a pretty high degree necessary to this order of historians . The first is , genius , without a full ...
... present to be more than usually threatened with them , I shall here venture to mention some qualifications , every one of which are in a pretty high degree necessary to this order of historians . The first is , genius , without a full ...
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... present to the reader , but for two reasons : First , we despair of making those who have seen this prospect , admire our description . Secondly , we very much doubt whether those who have not seen it , would understand it . Jones stood ...
... present to the reader , but for two reasons : First , we despair of making those who have seen this prospect , admire our description . Secondly , we very much doubt whether those who have not seen it , would understand it . Jones stood ...
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... present to his wife in the hands of his supposed rival . In fact , we regard these efforts as insults on our understanding , and to such the pride of man is very difficultly brought to submit . My landlady , though a very good ...
... present to his wife in the hands of his supposed rival . In fact , we regard these efforts as insults on our understanding , and to such the pride of man is very difficultly brought to submit . My landlady , though a very good ...
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... present distress had very little regarded the face of any person present , no sooner looked at the serjeant , than she presently recollected him , and calling him by his name , answered , That she was indeed . the unhappy person he ...
... present distress had very little regarded the face of any person present , no sooner looked at the serjeant , than she presently recollected him , and calling him by his name , answered , That she was indeed . the unhappy person he ...
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... present . Indeed , there is very little need of being particular in describing the whole form , as it differed so little from those libations of which so much is recorded in ancient authors and their modern transcribers . The principal ...
... present . Indeed , there is very little need of being particular in describing the whole form , as it differed so little from those libations of which so much is recorded in ancient authors and their modern transcribers . The principal ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acquainted answered Jones arrived assure attend aunt began begged behaviour believe better Blifil called CHAPTER consent cousin cries Jones daughter dear desire devil doth Dowling drest endeavour eyes father favour fellow Fitzpatrick fortune give gone happened happy hath hear heard heart heaven highwayman honour hope horse husband imagine inclination justice of peace kind knew Lady Bellaston ladyship landlady landlord likewise lodgings Lord Fellamar lordship madam manner marriage married matter mentioned Miller Miss Western mistress morning mouser nephew never Nightingale obliged occasion opinion overtake parson passion perhaps person pity pleased poor Sophia present promise reader received resolved serjeant servant Sir Roger L'Estrange soon sooner Squire Allworthy stept sure tell thee thing thou thought told truth uncle Upton utmost violent wife woman women Worcester words young gentleman young lady Zounds
Pasajes populares
Página 269 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 87 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Página 336 - Jones offered to speak, but Partridge cried, "Hush, hush, dear sir, don't you hear him!" And VOL. II. 3 F during the whole speech of the ghost, he sat with his eyes fixed partly on the ghost and partly on Hamlet, and with his mouth open ; the same passions which succeeded each other in Hamlet, succeeding likewise in him. When the scene was over Jones said, "Why, Partridge, you exceed my expectations. You enjoy the play more than I conceived possible.
Página 73 - 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...
Página 221 - Vanbrugh and Congreve copied nature : but they who copy them draw as unlike the present age, as Hogarth would do if he were to paint a rout or a drum in the dresses of Titian and of Vandyke. In short, imitation here will not do the business. The picture must be after nature herself. A true knowledge of the world is gained only by conversation, and the manners of every rank must be seen in order to be known.
Página 161 - Milton, sweetly tuning the heroic lyre ; fill my ravished fancy with the hopes of charming ages yet to come. Fortel 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.
Página 87 - tis his, and hath been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that WHICH NOT ENRICHES HIM BUT MAKES ME POOR INDEED.
Página 102 - I made no doubt but that his designs ' were strictly honourable, as the phrase is ; that is, to ' rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
Página 264 - A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
Página 335 - As soon as the play, which was Hamlet Prince of Denmark, began, Partridge was all attention, nor did he break silence till the entrance of the ghost ; upon which he asked Jones, " What man that was in the strange dress ; something," said he, "like what I have seen in a picture.