The History of Henry Fielding, Volumen2Yale University Press, 1918 |
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... Richardson for once agreed with his rival . After Fielding's death , Rich- ardson wrote to her , in line with a remark of Dr. Johnson's , that her late brother's knowledge of the human heart was but as " the knowledge of the outside of ...
... Richardson for once agreed with his rival . After Fielding's death , Rich- ardson wrote to her , in line with a remark of Dr. Johnson's , that her late brother's knowledge of the human heart was but as " the knowledge of the outside of ...
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... Richardson , who added a second part to " Pamela " after the story had been concluded ; for the characters were so real that people were willing to pay half a guinea more to learn how they thrived in the married state . Miss Fielding ...
... Richardson , who added a second part to " Pamela " after the story had been concluded ; for the characters were so real that people were willing to pay half a guinea more to learn how they thrived in the married state . Miss Fielding ...
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... Richardson , " who , needless to say , had not lent the prestige of his name to her brother's " Miscellanies . " The sequel to " David Simple " is a rather dull perform- ance of the moral kind , pieced out with many letters re- motely ...
... Richardson , " who , needless to say , had not lent the prestige of his name to her brother's " Miscellanies . " The sequel to " David Simple " is a rather dull perform- ance of the moral kind , pieced out with many letters re- motely ...
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... Richardson - is it not ? -when he says : " And sure no one will contend , that the epistolary style is in general the most proper to a novelist , or that it hath been used by the best writers of this kind . " Most of all , Fielding ...
... Richardson - is it not ? -when he says : " And sure no one will contend , that the epistolary style is in general the most proper to a novelist , or that it hath been used by the best writers of this kind . " Most of all , Fielding ...
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... Richardson , thought of her brother's marriage , is not recorded ; but his cousin Lady Mary Wortley Montagu observed , as an example of his happy temper , that " his natural spirits gave him rapture with his cook - maid . " Lady Mary ...
... Richardson , thought of her brother's marriage , is not recorded ; but his cousin Lady Mary Wortley Montagu observed , as an example of his happy temper , that " his natural spirits gave him rapture with his cook - maid . " Lady Mary ...
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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.