The History of Henry Fielding, Volumen2Yale University Press, 1918 |
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... given sanction to the Pretender's cause . " All this redounded to the glory of Scotland . The politics of the first number were enliv- ened by ridicule of the Pretender and his master the Pope , and by " A Loyal Song " to the tune of ...
... given sanction to the Pretender's cause . " All this redounded to the glory of Scotland . The politics of the first number were enliv- ened by ridicule of the Pretender and his master the Pope , and by " A Loyal Song " to the tune of ...
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... given very early proofs of a great genius in his profession of portrait painting . " Of Lord Wyndham , formerly " Lord Chancellor of the Kingdom of Ireland , " who had retired to Salisbury when his health broke , and had since come to ...
... given very early proofs of a great genius in his profession of portrait painting . " Of Lord Wyndham , formerly " Lord Chancellor of the Kingdom of Ireland , " who had retired to Salisbury when his health broke , and had since come to ...
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... given over wholly to lying and luxury , but " a total amendment of life , a total change of manners . " Subsequently Parson Adams had another discourse on the divine wrath that was overtaking a nation bent upon its own destruction ...
... given over wholly to lying and luxury , but " a total amendment of life , a total change of manners . " Subsequently Parson Adams had another discourse on the divine wrath that was overtaking a nation bent upon its own destruction ...
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... given to Father Poignardini , and the Bishoprics of Winchester and Ely , to the General of the Jesuits Order , resident in Italy . " March 1. The French Ambassador made a Duke , with Precedence . " March 4. An eminent Physician fined ...
... given to Father Poignardini , and the Bishoprics of Winchester and Ely , to the General of the Jesuits Order , resident in Italy . " March 1. The French Ambassador made a Duke , with Precedence . " March 4. An eminent Physician fined ...
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... given with the punning query : " Whether these be serjeants at law , or of the army ? " Though Fielding himself was unable to bear arms , he took an active interest in the measures for the defence of the kingdom . Perhaps he wrote that ...
... given with the punning query : " Whether these be serjeants at law , or of the army ? " Though Fielding himself was unable to bear arms , he took an active interest in the measures for the defence of the kingdom . Perhaps he wrote that ...
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Página 125 - Which lives as long as fools are pleased to laugh. Some, valuing those of their own side or mind, Still make themselves the measure of mankind: Fondly we think we honour merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Página 327 - H. Fielding has given a true picture of himself and his first wife in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure excepted ; and I am persuaded, several of the incidents he mentions are real matters of fact.
Página 303 - On the contrary (said he), you may observe there is always something which she prefers to truth. Fielding's Amelia ' was the most pleasing heroine of all the romances (he said) ; but that vile broken nose never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.
Página 127 - TO THE COUNTESS OF BUTE. Venice, Oct. 1, NS 1748. MY DEAR CHILD, I HAVE at length received the box, with the books enclosed ; for which I give you many thanks, as they amused me very much. I gave a very ridiculous proof of it, fitter indeed for my grand-daughter than myself. I returned from a party on horseback ; and after having rode twenty miles, part of it by moonshine, it was ten at night when I found the box arrived. I could not deny myself the pleasure of opening it : and, falling upon Fielding's...
Página 163 - ... fine park, composed of very unequal ground, and agreeably varied with all the diversity that hills, lawns, wood, and water, laid out with admirable taste, but owing less to art than to nature, could give. Beyond this, the country gradually rose into a ridge of wild mountains, the tops of which were above the clouds.
Página 175 - 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 called it, between him and his mother, where you told me he acted so fine, why any man, that is, any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same.
Página 226 - Bathurst t'other night carried a servant of the latter 's, who had attempted to shoot him, before Fielding; who, to all his other vocations, has, by the grace of Mr. Lyttelton, added that of Middlesex justice. He sent them word he was at supper, that they must come next morning.
Página 167 - When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion ; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion ; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
Página 103 - In like manner the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject, than in the author's skill in well dressing it up. How pleased therefore will the reader be to find, that we have, in the following work, adhered closely to one of the highest principles of the best cook which the present age, or perhaps that of Heliogabalus, hath produced...
Página 129 - In comparing those two writers, he used this expression ; " that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate.