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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... wife was the daughter of Sir Henry Gould , a judge of the King's Bench.2 This lady bore him six children , two of whom were boys - the novelist , and his brother Edmund ( who entered the navy , and died young ) —and four girls , named ...
... wife was the daughter of Sir Henry Gould , a judge of the King's Bench.2 This lady bore him six children , two of whom were boys - the novelist , and his brother Edmund ( who entered the navy , and died young ) —and four girls , named ...
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... wives and daughters of those who had turned up their eyes at the immoralities of the Italians , had the favourite airs of The Beggar's Opera ' printed on their fans . . . . And that the accom- plishments of Miss Polly Peachum and Miss ...
... wives and daughters of those who had turned up their eyes at the immoralities of the Italians , had the favourite airs of The Beggar's Opera ' printed on their fans . . . . And that the accom- plishments of Miss Polly Peachum and Miss ...
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... Wife at Home , " and " The Grub Street Opera . " The latter was originally entitled " The Welsh Opera , " from the scene being laid in the principality . It is properly styled by Dibdin " a strange jumble , " without any intelligible ...
... Wife at Home , " and " The Grub Street Opera . " The latter was originally entitled " The Welsh Opera , " from the scene being laid in the principality . It is properly styled by Dibdin " a strange jumble , " without any intelligible ...
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... wife's dishonour ) , might have been found ; but to represent such persons as the ordinary products of the social system then in vogue was a libel on the age , and exceeded the limits of the comedian's license . Bad men and women there ...
... wife's dishonour ) , might have been found ; but to represent such persons as the ordinary products of the social system then in vogue was a libel on the age , and exceeded the limits of the comedian's license . Bad men and women there ...
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... Wife for You All , " which the playbills announced to be " written by the author of ' The Miser . ' This piece — hurriedly thrown off by Fielding for a parti- cular purpose , and designed to display the special talent of the actress ...
... Wife for You All , " which the playbills announced to be " written by the author of ' The Miser . ' This piece — hurriedly thrown off by Fielding for a parti- cular purpose , and designed to display the special talent of the actress ...
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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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