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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... tion of the world's worst habits , thoughts , and sentiments . In the course of the preceding half - century , Wycherley , Congreve , Farquhar , and Vanbrugh , had exhausted all the arts which could render profligacy seductive or ...
... tion of the world's worst habits , thoughts , and sentiments . In the course of the preceding half - century , Wycherley , Congreve , Farquhar , and Vanbrugh , had exhausted all the arts which could render profligacy seductive or ...
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... tion of the play - going public ; ladies had the songs printed on their fans ; the actors in it obtained increased sala- ries ; and the original Polly Peachum ( Miss Fenton ) who had been engaged by the manager at fifteen shillings per ...
... tion of the play - going public ; ladies had the songs printed on their fans ; the actors in it obtained increased sala- ries ; and the original Polly Peachum ( Miss Fenton ) who had been engaged by the manager at fifteen shillings per ...
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... tion ; but its scenes furnish evidence of that fatal facility which is generally so ruinous to the young author . " With a careless and hasty pencil " ( to use the expression of one of his critics ) , Fielding satisfied himself with ...
... tion ; but its scenes furnish evidence of that fatal facility which is generally so ruinous to the young author . " With a careless and hasty pencil " ( to use the expression of one of his critics ) , Fielding satisfied himself with ...
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... tion in advance , -pursued by creditors , -shunned by pru- dent friends , who knew how hopeless it was to attempt to assist him , such was the man who enlivened the green- room with his wit when Fielding's town life commenced , and ...
... tion in advance , -pursued by creditors , -shunned by pru- dent friends , who knew how hopeless it was to attempt to assist him , such was the man who enlivened the green- room with his wit when Fielding's town life commenced , and ...
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... " was the theatrical term for the period of provincial probation , which was once considered a necessary prepara- tion for the London stage . Death of Tom Thumb the Great , " - which D 2 ÆT . 23. ] 35 DRAMATIC CAREER .
... " was the theatrical term for the period of provincial probation , which was once considered a necessary prepara- tion for the London stage . Death of Tom Thumb the Great , " - which D 2 ÆT . 23. ] 35 DRAMATIC CAREER .
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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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