The Life of Henry Fielding: With Notices of His Writings, His Times, and His ContemporariesA. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1855 - 384 páginas |
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... novel was intended for the pedagogue . " He ( Trulliber ) was indeed one of the largest men you should see , and could have acted the part of Sir John Falstaff without stuffing . Add to this , that the rotundity of his belly was ...
... novel was intended for the pedagogue . " He ( Trulliber ) was indeed one of the largest men you should see , and could have acted the part of Sir John Falstaff without stuffing . Add to this , that the rotundity of his belly was ...
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... novel , chap . ii . , reference is again made to this professor of the healing art : " The learned Dr. Misaubin used to say that the proper direction to him was , ' To Dr. Misaubin , in the World ; intimating that there were few people ...
... novel , chap . ii . , reference is again made to this professor of the healing art : " The learned Dr. Misaubin used to say that the proper direction to him was , ' To Dr. Misaubin , in the World ; intimating that there were few people ...
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... novel , - " Amelia . " The follies into which Booth represents himself as falling , when deprived of the sage counsel of Dr. Harrison , are of the same character as those imputed to the novelist . Not content with enlarging his farm ...
... novel , - " Amelia . " The follies into which Booth represents himself as falling , when deprived of the sage counsel of Dr. Harrison , are of the same character as those imputed to the novelist . Not content with enlarging his farm ...
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... novel theatrical venture . Great confusion - amounting almost to anarchy - had for some time prevailed in the playhouse world . The theatrical state was out of tune . Broils and distractions tried the patience and emptied the pockets of ...
... novel theatrical venture . Great confusion - amounting almost to anarchy - had for some time prevailed in the playhouse world . The theatrical state was out of tune . Broils and distractions tried the patience and emptied the pockets of ...
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... novel , was asked during the life- time of the author , by some gentlemen in the French embassy , what works of imagination were then popular in Spain , he immediately referred to the adventures of the wondrous " Don . " The Frenchmen ...
... novel , was asked during the life- time of the author , by some gentlemen in the French embassy , what works of imagination were then popular in Spain , he immediately referred to the adventures of the wondrous " Don . " The Frenchmen ...
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Página 255 - Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, " he was a blockhead ; " and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, " What I mean by his being a blockhead is, that he was a barren rascal.
Página 162 - Sir Roger and his chaplain, and their mutual concurrence in doing good, is the more remarkable, because the very next village is famous for the differences and contentions that rise between the parson and the squire, who live in a perpetual state of war. The parson is always preaching at the squire; and the squire, to be revenged on the parson, never comes to church.
Página 257 - 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. And then, to be sure, in that scene, as you...
Página 352 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Página 3 - Feilding," like the head of the house ? "I cannot tell, my lord," said he, " except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell.
Página 377 - VOCABULARY, or English Spelling Book; with the Meaning attached to each Word. Compiled for the use of Ackworth School. New Edition. 18mo. cloth, Is.
Página 351 - They have put in the papers a good story made on White's : a man dropped down dead at the door, was carried in ; the club immediately made bets whether he was dead or not, and when they were going to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, and said it would affect the fairness of the bet.
Página 349 - He has an admirable natural love of truth, the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy, the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn. His wit is wonderfully wise and detective; it flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern.
Página 257 - 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. And then, to be...
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