The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Henry Fielding, by Leslie Stephen. The history of Tom Jones, a foundlingSmith, Elder & Company, 1882 |
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... called by the collective name of genius , as they are of those gifts of nature which we bring with us into the world . Concerning each of which many seem to have fallen into very great errors ; for by invention , I believe , is ...
... called by the collective name of genius , as they are of those gifts of nature which we bring with us into the world . Concerning each of which many seem to have fallen into very great errors ; for by invention , I believe , is ...
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... called high life , will not instruct him in low ; nor , è converso , will his being acquainted with the inferior part of mankind , teach him the manners of the 1 There is a peculiar propriety in mentioning this great actor , and these ...
... called high life , will not instruct him in low ; nor , è converso , will his being acquainted with the inferior part of mankind , teach him the manners of the 1 There is a peculiar propriety in mentioning this great actor , and these ...
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... called in our own language , the whole artillery of love . Now Mrs. Waters and our hero had no sooner sat down together , than the former began to play this artillery upon the latter . But here , as we are about to attempt a descrip ...
... called in our own language , the whole artillery of love . Now Mrs. Waters and our hero had no sooner sat down together , than the former began to play this artillery upon the latter . But here , as we are about to attempt a descrip ...
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... peace - making serjeant , sorely to the displeasure of Partridge , who was a great lover of what is called fun , and a great promoter of those harmless quarrels which tend rather to the production of comical than tragical 30 THE HISTORY OF.
... peace - making serjeant , sorely to the displeasure of Partridge , who was a great lover of what is called fun , and a great promoter of those harmless quarrels which tend rather to the production of comical than tragical 30 THE HISTORY OF.
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... called a well- bred man , he had stifled all that curiosity which the extraordinary manner in which he had found Mrs. Waters must be supposed to have occasioned . first thrown out some few hints to the lady ; but when he perceived her ...
... called a well- bred man , he had stifled all that curiosity which the extraordinary manner in which he had found Mrs. Waters must be supposed to have occasioned . first thrown out some few hints to the lady ; but when he perceived her ...
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acquainted afraid answered Jones arrived assure aunt began behaviour believe better Blifil called CHAPTER Cicero consent cousin cries Allworthy cries Jones cries Partridge daughter dear desire devil doth Dowling drest endeavour eyes father favour fellow Fitzpatrick fortune give happened happy hath hear heard heart heartily heaven HENRY FIELDING highwayman honour hope horses husband imagine justice of peace kind knew Lady Bellaston ladyship landlady landlord least likewise lodgings look Lord Fellamar lordship madam maid manner marriage married matter mentioned Miller Miss Western mistress morning Nancy nephew never Nightingale obliged occasion opinion pardon passion perhaps person pleased poor present promise reader received servant sooner Squire Allworthy stept suffered sure surprised tell tender thee thing thou thought told truth uncle Upton violent wife woman word wretch young gentleman young lady Zounds
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Página 332 - 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 93 - 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 536 - At this instant Western, who had stood some time listening, burst into the room, and with his hunting voice and phrase, cried out, "To her, boy, to her, go to her. That's it, little honeys, O that's it! Well, what is it all over? Hath she appointed the day, boy ? What, shall it be to-morrow or next day ? It sha'n't be put off a minute longer than next day, I am resolved.
Página 76 - ... (E'en such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone...
Página 404 - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why I could act. as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 277 - 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 217 - Come, bright love of fame, &c., fill my ravished fancy with the hopes of charming ages yet to come. Foretell 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. Do thou teach me not only to foresee but to enjoy, nay, even to feed on future praise. Comfort me by...
Página 402 - During the second act Partridge made very few remarks. He greatly admired the fineness of the dresses; nor could he help observing upon the king's countenance. "Well," said he, "how people may be deceived by faces?
Página 7 - Again, there is another sort of knowledge, beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had by conversation. So necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges and among books ; for however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
Página 401 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything ; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company ; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.