FieldingMacmillan, 1907 - 218 páginas He had discovered its scope and possibilities only when it was too late to re-cast his original design; and though Joseph Andrews has all the freshness and energy of a first attempt in a new direction, it has also the manifest disadvantages of a mixed conception and an uncertain plan. No one had perceived these defects more plainly than the author; and in Tom Jones he set himself diligently to perfect his new-found method. He believed that he foresaw a "new Province of Writing," of which he regarded himself with justice as the founder and lawgiver; and in the "prolegomenous, or introductory Chapters" to each book--those delightful resting-spaces where, as George Eliot says, "he seems to bring his arm-chair to the proscenium and chat with us in all the lusty ease of his fine English." |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 13
Página 18
... Tom Thumb , the Coffee - House Politician was followed by the Letter Writers ; or , A new Way to Keep a Wife at Home , 1731 , a brisk little farce , with one vigorously drawn character , that of Jack Commons , a young university rake ...
... Tom Thumb , the Coffee - House Politician was followed by the Letter Writers ; or , A new Way to Keep a Wife at Home , 1731 , a brisk little farce , with one vigorously drawn character , that of Jack Commons , a young university rake ...
Página 19
... Tom Thumb . This was first brought out in 1730 at the little theatre in the Hay- market , where it met with a favourable reception . In the following year it was enlarged to three acts ( in the first version there had been but two ) ...
... Tom Thumb . This was first brought out in 1730 at the little theatre in the Hay- market , where it met with a favourable reception . In the following year it was enlarged to three acts ( in the first version there had been but two ) ...
Página 20
... Tom Thumbs , one whereof he supposes to have been the same Person whom the Greeks called Hercules , and that by these Giants are to be understood the Centaurs slain by that Heroe . Another Tom Thumb ... Tom Thumb he places under the Reign of ...
... Tom Thumbs , one whereof he supposes to have been the same Person whom the Greeks called Hercules , and that by these Giants are to be understood the Centaurs slain by that Heroe . Another Tom Thumb ... Tom Thumb he places under the Reign of ...
Página 21
... Tom Thumb did live . " But then , says Dr. B- -y , if we place Tom Thumb in the Court of King Arthur , it will be proper to place that Court out of Britain , where no Giants were ever heard of . Spencer , in his Fairy Queen , is of ...
... Tom Thumb did live . " But then , says Dr. B- -y , if we place Tom Thumb in the Court of King Arthur , it will be proper to place that Court out of Britain , where no Giants were ever heard of . Spencer , in his Fairy Queen , is of ...
Página 22
... Tom Thumb who kills the ghost , but the ghost of Tom Thumb which is killed by his jealous rival , Lord Grizzle . A trifling inaccuracy of this sort , how- ever , is rather in favour of the truth of the story than against it , for a pure ...
... Tom Thumb who kills the ghost , but the ghost of Tom Thumb which is killed by his jealous rival , Lord Grizzle . A trifling inaccuracy of this sort , how- ever , is rather in favour of the truth of the story than against it , for a pure ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
A. C. BENSON acted admirable afterwards Amelia Andrew Millar appears Author's Farce Bath biographers Booth Bow Street burlesque called Champion chapter character Cibber comedy contemporary Covent Garden daughter David Simple dedication doubt Drury Lane East Stour edition essays Eton famous father February Fielding's friends Garrick Gentleman's Henry Fielding Hogarth Honour Humour husband Jacobite's Journal John Jones Joseph Andrews justice Keightley Lady Mary Lawrence letter Leyden Lisbon living London Lord Lyme Lyttelton marriage Millar Miscellanies Miss Modbury Molière Murphy never novel Pamela pamphlet paper Parson Adams Pasquin passage piece play portrait Preface probably published Ralph Allen reference Register Richardson Salisbury Sarah Fielding satire says scarcely scenes seems Sophia Western speaks Squire stage story theatre Theophilus Cibber Thumb tion Tom Jones Tom Thumb Town Voyage to Lisbon Walpole wife writing written young
Pasajes populares
Página 25 - To think those greater who're above us. Another instance of my glory, Who live above you twice two story, And from my garret can look down On the whole street of Arlington.
Página 173 - I will confess that my private affairs at the beginning of the winter had but a gloomy aspect ; for I had not plundered the public or the poor of those sums which men, who are always ready to plunder both as much as they can, have been pleased to suspect me of taking; on the contrary, by composing, instead of inflaming, the quarrels of porters and beggars (which I blush when I say hath not been universally practised), and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly would not have...
Página 82 - ... no intention to vilify or asperse any one; for though everything is copied from the book of nature, and scarce a character or action produced which I have not taken from my own observations and experience; yet I have used the utmost care to obscure the persons by such different circumstances, degrees, and colours, that it will be impossible to guess at them with any degree of certainty...
Página 102 - I marvel nothing so much as that men will gird themselves at discovering obscure beauties in an author. Certes the greatest and most pregnant beauties are ever the plainest and most evidently striking; and when two meanings of a passage can in the least balance our judgments which to prefer, I hold it matter of unquestionable certainty that neither of them is worth a farthing.
Página 180 - This discovery being made by accident, we completed the best, the pleasantest, and the merriest meal, with more appetite, more real solid luxury, and more festivity, than was ever seen in an entertainment at White's.
Página 66 - ... would, in my opinion, .do him very little honour; for sure it is much easier, -much less the subject of admiration, to paint a man with a nose, or any other feature, of a preposterous size, or to expose him in some absurd or monstrous attitude, than to express the affections of men on canvas. It...
Página 214 - HE looked on naked Nature unashamed, And saw the Sphinx, now bestial, now divine, In change and rechange ; he nor praised nor blamed, But drew her as he saw with fearless line. Did he good service ? God must judge, not we ; Manly he was, and generous and sincere ; English in all, of genius blithely free : Who loves a Man may see his image here.
Página 145 - 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. Lyttleton, added that of Middlesex Justice. He sent them word that he was at supper ; that they must come next morning.
Página 35 - A brushing fox in yonder wood Secure to find we seek; For why, I carried, sound and good, A cartload there last week. And a hunting we will go. Away he goes, he flies the rout, Their steeds all spur and switch ; Some are thrown in, and some thrown out, And some thrown in the ditch : But a hunting we will go.