The History of Tom Jones: a foundling, volume 2William Allan Neilson P. F. Collier & Son, 1917 - 538 páginas |
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... present to be more than usually threatened with them , I shall here venture to men- tion some qualifications , every one of which are in a pretty high degree necessary to this order of historians . The first is , genius , without a full ...
... present to be more than usually threatened with them , I shall here venture to men- tion some qualifications , every one of which are in a pretty high degree necessary to this order of historians . The first is , genius , without a full ...
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... present to his wife in the hands of his supposed rival . In fact , we regard these efforts as insults on our understanding , and to such the pride of man is very difficultly brought to submit . My landlady , though a very good ...
... present to his wife in the hands of his supposed rival . In fact , we regard these efforts as insults on our understanding , and to such the pride of man is very difficultly brought to submit . My landlady , though a very good ...
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... present distress had very little regarded the face of any person present , no sooner looked at the serjeant than she presently recollected him , and calling him by his name , answered , " That she was indeed the unhappy person he ...
... present distress had very little regarded the face of any person present , no sooner looked at the serjeant than she presently recollected him , and calling him by his name , answered , " That she was indeed the unhappy person he ...
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... present . Indeed , there is very little need of being particular in describing the whole form , as it dif- fered so little from those libations of which so much is recorded in antient authors and their modern transcribers . The ...
... present . Indeed , there is very little need of being particular in describing the whole form , as it dif- fered so little from those libations of which so much is recorded in antient authors and their modern transcribers . The ...
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... present . When the reader hath duly reflected on these many charms which all centered in our heroe , and considers at the same time the fresh obligations which Mrs. Waters had to him , it will be a mark more of prudery than candour to ...
... present . When the reader hath duly reflected on these many charms which all centered in our heroe , and considers at the same time the fresh obligations which Mrs. Waters had to him , it will be a mark more of prudery than candour to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acquainted Allworthy answered arrived aunt began begged behaviour believe better Blifil called cern certainly CHAPTER charms companion cousin Coventry cries Jones cries Partridge daughter dear desire doth Dutch defence endeavour eyes father favour fellow Fitzpatrick footman fortune gentle give gypsy hands happened happiness hath heard heart heartily HENRY FIELDING heroe highwayman honour hope horses hostler husband imagine immediately justice of peace kind kitchen Lady Bellaston ladyship landlady landlord likewise look lord madam maid manner marriage matter mentioned mistress muff nature never night Nightingale Northerton numbers obliged occasion opinion perhaps person pleased poor present promise puppet-show reader received say the truth serjeant servants sooner Sophia squire Squire Allworthy sure surprize Susan tell thee thou thought toyman tridge Upton violent Western wife woman women word young gentleman young lady Zounds
Pasajes populares
Página 333 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 13 - Hence we are to derive that universal contempt which the world, who always denominate the whole from the majority, have cast on all historical writers who do not draw their materials from records. And it is the apprehension of this contempt that hath made us so cautiously avoid the term romance, a name with which we might otherwise have been well enough contented.
Página 84 - 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 400 - O la! what noise is that? There he is again.-- Well to be certain, though I know there is nothing at all in it, I am glad I am not down yonder, where those men are.
Página 399 - I know there is nothing in them: not that it was the ghost that surprized me, neither; for I should have known that to have been only a man in a strange dress; but when I saw the little man so frightened himself, it was that which took hold of me.
Página 51 - The foibles and vices of men, in whom there is great mixture of good, become more glaring objects from the virtues which contrast them and shew their deformity ; and when we find such vices attended with their evil consequence to our favourite characters, we are not only taught to shun, them for our own sake, but to hate them for the mischiefs they have already brought on those we love.
Página 220 - ... 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. Do thou teach me not only to foresee, but to enjoy, nay, even to feed on future praise. Comfort me by...
Página 401 - No wonder then," cries Partridge, "that the place is haunted. But I never saw in my life a worse gravedigger. I had a sexton, when I was clerk, that should have dug three graves while he is digging one. The fellow handles a spade as if it was the first time he had ever had one in his hand.
Página 400 - Partridge sat in fearful expectation of this; and now, when the ghost made his next appearance, Partridge cried out, " There, sir, now! what say you now? Is he frightened now, or no? As much frightened as you think me, — and to be sure, nobody can help some fears. I would not be in so bad a condition as what 's his name, — Squire Hamlet, — is there, for all the world.
Página 402 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer ; ' why, I could act as well as he myself. 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, 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,...