The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Volumen3Johnson, 1808 |
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... hath been held to be in the law . In reality , I apprehend every amorous widow on the stage would run the hazard of being condemned as a servile imitation of Dido , but that happily very few of our play - house critics understand enough ...
... hath been held to be in the law . In reality , I apprehend every amorous widow on the stage would run the hazard of being condemned as a servile imitation of Dido , but that happily very few of our play - house critics understand enough ...
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... hath been a custom long established in the polite world , and that upon very solid and sub- stantial reasons , that ... hath any knowledge of the world ; for by this means the lady hath time to adjust herself , or to remove any ...
... hath been a custom long established in the polite world , and that upon very solid and sub- stantial reasons , that ... hath any knowledge of the world ; for by this means the lady hath time to adjust herself , or to remove any ...
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... hath debauched my wife , and is got into bed with her . ' What wife ? ' cries Macklachlan , do not I know Mrs. Fitzpatrick 6 very well , and don't I see that the lady , whom ' the gentleman who stands here in his shirt is ' lying in bed ...
... hath debauched my wife , and is got into bed with her . ' What wife ? ' cries Macklachlan , do not I know Mrs. Fitzpatrick 6 very well , and don't I see that the lady , whom ' the gentleman who stands here in his shirt is ' lying in bed ...
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... I thank good luck , I have always had enow of such customers ; in- deed as many as I could entertain . Here hath ' been my Lord - , ' and then she repeated over a catalogue of names and titles , many of which 10 THE HISTORY OF.
... I thank good luck , I have always had enow of such customers ; in- deed as many as I could entertain . Here hath ' been my Lord - , ' and then she repeated over a catalogue of names and titles , many of which 10 THE HISTORY OF.
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... hath mercy upon dumb creatures ; for she ask . ' ed me every now and tan upon the journey , if I did not think she should hurt the horses by riding too fast ! and when she came in , she ' charged me to give them as much corn as ever ...
... hath mercy upon dumb creatures ; for she ask . ' ed me every now and tan upon the journey , if I did not think she should hurt the horses by riding too fast ! and when she came in , she ' charged me to give them as much corn as ever ...
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acquainted Allworthy answered arrived aunt began behaviour believe better Blifil called cerned certainly CHAP charms concluded confess cousin Coventry cries Jones cries Partridge daugh daughter dear desired endeavour eyes father fear fellow Fitzpatrick footman fortune gentle give guinea Gypsy happened hath heard heart heartily highwayman honour hope horses hostler husband imagine kind kitchen knew Lady Bellaston ladyship landlady landlord likewise Little Britain look madam maid manner marriage matter mentioned mind mistress morning muff never night Nightingale obliged occasion opinion passion perhaps perly person pleased poor portune post-boy present puppet-show racters reader say the truth sooner squire Squire Allworthy sure Susan tell thee ther thing thou thought tion told TOM JONES toyman tridge Upton violent voice wife woman word young gentleman young lady
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Página 43 - 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 211 - COME, bright love of fame, inspire my glowing breast : not thee I call, who, over swelling tides of blood and tears, dost bear the hero on to glory, while sighs of millions waft his spreading sails ; but thee, fair, gentle maid, whom Mnesis, happy nymph, first on the banks of Hebrus did produce. Thee, whom...
Página 2 - Another caution we would give thee, my good reptile, is that thou dost not find out too near a resemblance between certain characters here introduced; as for instance, between the landlady who appears in the seventh book, and her in the ninth. Thou art to know, friend, that there are certain characteristics in which most individuals of every profession and occupation agree. To be able to preserve these characteristics, and at the same time to diversify their operations, is one talent of a good writer.
Página 4 - ... quas humana parum cavit natura, they will raise our compassion rather than our abhorrence. Indeed, nothing can be of more moral use than the imperfections which are seen in examples of...
Página 2 - First, then, we warn thee not too hastily to condemn any of the incidents in this our history, as impertinent and foreign to our main design, because thou dost not immediately conceive in •what manner such incident may conduce to that design.
Página 211 - Milton, sweetly tuning the heroic lyre, fill my ravished fancy with the hopes of 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.
Página 151 - Husband ; and it was indeed a very grave and solemn entertainment, without any low wit or humour, or jests ; or, to do it no more than justice, without anything which could provoke a laugh.
Página 170 - ... what happened to Jones at Upton as a just punishment for his wickedness with regard to women, of which it was indeed the immediate consequence ; and silly and bad persons...
Página 3 - If thou dost delight in these models of perfection, there are books enow written to gratify thy taste ; but, as we have not, in the course of our conversation, ever happened to meet with any such person, we have not chosen to introduce any such here.
Página 181 - Place me where never summer breeze Unbinds the glebe, or warms the trees ; Where ever lowering clouds appear, And angry Jove deforms th' inclement year. " ' Place me beneath the burning ray, Where rolls the rapid car of day ; Love and the nymph shall charm my toils, The nymph who sweetly speaks, and sweetly smiles." Mr. FRANCIS. " Why then here's Miss Lalage's health with all my heart,