The history of Tom JonesCarey and Lea, 1832 |
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... reason for a failure , which has occurred in too many instances , to be the operation of mere chance , since a priori , one would think the same ta- lents necessary for both walks of literature . Force of character , strength of ...
... reason for a failure , which has occurred in too many instances , to be the operation of mere chance , since a priori , one would think the same ta- lents necessary for both walks of literature . Force of character , strength of ...
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... reason where we find the thorny reasonings of philosophy to believe , that , of what we have called primary , or ... reason , be charged with a want of invention . The three great primary branches of composition are finely united in the ...
... reason where we find the thorny reasonings of philosophy to believe , that , of what we have called primary , or ... reason , be charged with a want of invention . The three great primary branches of composition are finely united in the ...
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... reasons for their opinions , and other matters , CHAP . VI . Containing a better reason still for the beforementioned opinions , CHAP . VII . In which the author himself makes his appearance on the stage , CHAP . VIII . A childish ...
... reasons for their opinions , and other matters , CHAP . VI . Containing a better reason still for the beforementioned opinions , CHAP . VII . In which the author himself makes his appearance on the stage , CHAP . VIII . A childish ...
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... reason which hath lusion strong enough to persuade you to so determined me to act in a milder manner simple a bargain ? Or can any carnal ap- with you ; for , as no private resentment petite so overpower your reason , or so should ever ...
... reason which hath lusion strong enough to persuade you to so determined me to act in a milder manner simple a bargain ? Or can any carnal ap- with you ; for , as no private resentment petite so overpower your reason , or so should ever ...
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... reason to cry out with Thisbe , in Shakspeare , ' O wicked , wicked wall ! ' For , as Mr. Allworthy was a justice of peace , certain things occurred in exami - launched forth with safety ; and the saga- nations concerning bastards , and ...
... reason to cry out with Thisbe , in Shakspeare , ' O wicked , wicked wall ! ' For , as Mr. Allworthy was a justice of peace , certain things occurred in exami - launched forth with safety ; and the saga- nations concerning bastards , and ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquainted afraid Allworthy Allworthy's appeared arrived assure aunt began begged behaviour believe better Blifil brother called cerning CHAP CHAPTER character cries Jones daugh daughter dear desire doth endeavour eyes father favour fellow Fitzpatrick fortune gamekeeper gave give guineas happened happiness hath hear heard heart Henry Fielding highwayman honour hope horse husband imagine Jenny Jones Jonathan Wild Joseph Andrews justice of peace kind knew la'ship Lady Bellaston ladyship landlady least likewise lord madam manner marriage married matter means mention Miller mind mistress morning nature never Nightingale obliged occasion opinion Partridge passion perhaps person pleased poor present promise racter reader received say the truth seen servants soon sooner Sophia squire Squire Allworthy suffer sure tell thee thing thou thought Thwackum tion told Tom Jones tridge violent Western whole wife woman word young gentleman young lady
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Página 371 - ... you called it, between him and his mother, where you told me he acted so fine, why, Lord help me, any man, that is, any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same. I know you are only joking with me ; but indeed, madam, though I was never at a play in London, yet I have seen acting before in the country ; and the king for my money; he speaks all his words distinctly, half as loud again as the other. — Anybody may see he is an actor.
Página 370 - 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.
Página 224 - Nor will all the qualities I have hitherto given my historian avail him, unless he have what is generally meant by a good heart, and be capable of feeling. The author who will make me weep, says Horace, must first weep himself.
Página 20 - The whispering zephyr and the purling rill? Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?
Página 46 - IN that part of the western division of this kingdom, which is commonly called Somersetshire, there lately lived (and perhaps lives still) a gentleman, whose name was Allworthy, and who might well be called the favourite of both nature and fortune ; for both of these seem to have contended which should bless and enrich him most.
Página 300 - Milton, sweetly tuning the heroic lyre ; fill my ravished fancy with the hopes of charming ages yet to come. Foretel 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.
Página 62 - Jurisdiction whatever: For as I am, in reality, the Founder of a new Province of Writing, so I am at liberty to make what Laws I please therein.
Página 249 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Página 6 - He had the advantage both in learning and, in my opinion, genius: they both agreed in wanting money in spite of all their friends, and would have wanted it, if their hereditary lands had been as extensive as their imagination; yet each of them [was] so formed for happiness, it is pity he was not immortal.
Página 223 - 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 learnt only in the world.