The History of Henry Fielding, Volumen2Yale University Press, 1918 |
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... Hills . A little gossip may be traced to the author's household . While Fielding was still at work on " Tom Jones , " his sister Sarah began a book called " The Governess , " on the education and behaviour of girls . Jane Collier , who ...
... Hills . A little gossip may be traced to the author's household . While Fielding was still at work on " Tom Jones , " his sister Sarah began a book called " The Governess , " on the education and behaviour of girls . Jane Collier , who ...
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... Hill near Salisbury , now that his wife Charlotte had long since been dead . Nor had he yet taken Fordhook House at Ealing on the Uxbridge Road beyond Hammersmith , nor the house at Barnes across the Thames in Surrey , where it is said ...
... Hill near Salisbury , now that his wife Charlotte had long since been dead . Nor had he yet taken Fordhook House at Ealing on the Uxbridge Road beyond Hammersmith , nor the house at Barnes across the Thames in Surrey , where it is said ...
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... hills - a welcome guest everywhere . In the anecdotes which he left about Allen , in a little posthumous volume entitled " The Triflers , " he says that Fielding " dined Pat cel apme While Folding was en 19ge i I. 110 THE HISTORY OF ...
... hills - a welcome guest everywhere . In the anecdotes which he left about Allen , in a little posthumous volume entitled " The Triflers , " he says that Fielding " dined Pat cel apme While Folding was en 19ge i I. 110 THE HISTORY OF ...
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... Hills overlooking the village of Radway . This country gentleman , now almost forgotten , was a conspicuous figure in the ... hill to give battle to Lord Essex . The scenery , beautiful in itself , had been made more beautiful by hanging ...
... Hills overlooking the village of Radway . This country gentleman , now almost forgotten , was a conspicuous figure in the ... hill to give battle to Lord Essex . The scenery , beautiful in itself , had been made more beautiful by hanging ...
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... Hills and in the Vale of the Red Horse , " by the Rev. George Miller , a descendant of the hospitable squire . Writing to Miss Godden in 1907 , Mr. Miller re- peated the story as given here and added : " My father told me this often and ...
... Hills and in the Vale of the Red Horse , " by the Rev. George Miller , a descendant of the hospitable squire . Writing to Miss Godden in 1907 , Mr. Miller re- peated the story as given here and added : " My father told me this often and ...
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Allworthy Amelia Andrew Millar appeared Booth Bow Street brought called character comedy court Covent Covent-Garden Journal crime Drawcansir Duke East Stour edition favour Fielding's Fitzpatrick friends Garden Garrick gave gentleman Gentleman's Magazine Grub Street hath Henry Fielding Hill honour House of Hanover humour Jacobite Jacobite's Journal Jenny Jones John John Fielding Jones Joseph Andrews justice King knew Lady Bellaston letter London Daily Advertiser London Evening Post Lord Luxborough Lyttelton Master Blifil ment Millar narrative never newspaper night novel Old England once pamphlet Partridge peace Penlez perhaps persons play poem political poor praise published Ralph Allen reader Richardson ridicule Salisbury Sanderson Miller says scene shillings Sir Alexander sister Sophia Squire Western story theatre Thwackum tion told Tom Jones Tom's town Trottplaid True Patriot Universal Register Office volumes week wife woman write written wrote young
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Página 148 - When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion ; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion ; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
Página 110 - Which lives as long as fools are pleased to laugh. Some, valuing those of their own side or mind, Still make themselves the measure of mankind: Fondly we think we honour merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Página 288 - H. Fielding has given a true picture of himself and his first wife in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure excepted ; and I am persuaded, several of the incidents he mentions are real matters of fact.
Página 264 - On the contrary (said he), you may observe there is always something which she prefers to truth. Fielding's Amelia ' was the most pleasing heroine of all the romances (he said) ; but that vile broken nose never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.
Página 391 - ... those Kinds of Writing that are apt to promote it. On the contrary, few Men, I believe, do more admire the Works of those great Masters who have sent their Satire (if I may use the Expression) laughing into the World. Such are that great Triumvirate, Lucian, Cervantes, and Swift.
Página 112 - TO THE COUNTESS OF BUTE. Venice, Oct. 1, NS 1748. MY DEAR CHILD, I HAVE at length received the box, with the books enclosed ; for which I give you many thanks, as they amused me very much. I gave a very ridiculous proof of it, fitter indeed for my grand-daughter than myself. I returned from a party on horseback ; and after having rode twenty miles, part of it by moonshine, it was ten at night when I found the box arrived. I could not deny myself the pleasure of opening it : and, falling upon Fielding's...
Página 144 - ... fine park, composed of very unequal ground, and agreeably varied with all the diversity that hills, lawns, wood, and water, laid out with admirable taste, but owing less to art than to nature, could give. Beyond this, the country gradually rose into a ridge of wild mountains, the tops of which were above the clouds.
Página 160 - I am sure if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then to be sure, in that scene, as you called it, between him and his mother, where you told me he acted so fine, why any man, that is, any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same.
Página 251 - But if we were to make a progress through the outskirts of this town, and look into the habitations of the poor, we should there behold such pictures of human misery as must move the compassion of every heart that deserves the name of human. What, indeed, must be his composition who could see whole families in want of every necessary of life, oppressed with hunger, cold, nakedness, and filth; and with diseases, the certain consequences of all these - what, I say, must be his composition who could...
Página 88 - In like manner the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject, than in the author's skill in well dressing it up. How pleased therefore will the reader be to find, that we have, in the following work, adhered closely to one of the highest principles of the best cook which the present age, or perhaps that of Heliogabalus, hath produced...