The History of Henry Fielding, Volumen2Yale University Press, 1918 |
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... Luxborough , for example . After acquir- ing Claverton , Allen used to dine every week at the manor- house . " I dined there , " says Graves , " more than once with Mrs. Fielding , the author of ' David Simple . ' . Mr. Allen very ...
... Luxborough , for example . After acquir- ing Claverton , Allen used to dine every week at the manor- house . " I dined there , " says Graves , " more than once with Mrs. Fielding , the author of ' David Simple . ' . Mr. Allen very ...
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... Luxborough , the sister of Lord Bolingbroke , then living in retirement at Barrells in Warwickshire : " I have been very well entertained lately with the two first Volumes of the Foundling , written by Mr Fielding , but not to be ...
... Luxborough , the sister of Lord Bolingbroke , then living in retirement at Barrells in Warwickshire : " I have been very well entertained lately with the two first Volumes of the Foundling , written by Mr Fielding , but not to be ...
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... Luxborough of the un- published novel which people of fashion were writing and talking about . " I remember , " Lady Luxborough wrote to the poet Shenstone in retrospect , " I heard so much in Tom Jones's praise , that when I read him ...
... Luxborough of the un- published novel which people of fashion were writing and talking about . " I remember , " Lady Luxborough wrote to the poet Shenstone in retrospect , " I heard so much in Tom Jones's praise , that when I read him ...
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... Luxborough preferred " Joseph Andrews " to " Tom Jones . " Writing to the poet from Barrells , March 23 , 1749 , Lady Lux- borough says in the midst of her letter : " I might live at least five hundred years in 127 THE RECEPTION OF TOM ...
... Luxborough preferred " Joseph Andrews " to " Tom Jones . " Writing to the poet from Barrells , March 23 , 1749 , Lady Lux- borough says in the midst of her letter : " I might live at least five hundred years in 127 THE RECEPTION OF TOM ...
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... drama was all played out to the very end , where it exploded in a burst of mirth . Field- ing's contemporaries had never seen anything so clever off the stage . Lady Luxborough , to be sure 160 THE HISTORY OF HENRY FIELDING.
... drama was all played out to the very end , where it exploded in a burst of mirth . Field- ing's contemporaries had never seen anything so clever off the stage . Lady Luxborough , to be sure 160 THE HISTORY OF HENRY FIELDING.
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Página 128 - 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 330 - 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 435 - ... those Kinds of Writing that are apt to promote it. On the contrary, few Men, I believe, do more admire the Works of those great Masters who have sent their Satire (if I may use the Expression) laughing into the World. Such are that great Triumvirate, Lucian, Cervantes, and Swift. These Authors...
Página 130 - 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 166 - ... 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 178 - 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 170 - 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 274 - But if we were to make a progress through the outskirts of this town, and look into the habitations of the poor, we should there behold such pictures of human misery as must move the compassion of every heart that deserves the name of human. What, indeed, must be his composition who could see whole families in want of every necessary of life, oppressed with hunger, cold, nakedness, and filth; and with diseases, the certain consequences of all these - what, I say, must be his composition who could...
Página 229 - 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 213 - Fielding has departed from this admirable sketch. As an English squire, Western ought not to have taken a beating so unresistingly from the friend of Lord Fellamar.