The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Volumen3Johnson, 1808 |
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... opinion . To be sure , it is 6 a scandalous way of travelling , for a great gen . ' tleman like you to walk afoot . Now here are two or three good horses in the stable , which the ' landlord will certainly make no scruple of trust ...
... opinion . To be sure , it is 6 a scandalous way of travelling , for a great gen . ' tleman like you to walk afoot . Now here are two or three good horses in the stable , which the ' landlord will certainly make no scruple of trust ...
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... opinion of the good squire , he had , from the time of her committing it , abandoned the poor young creature , who was then no more than eighteen , as a mon- ster , and had never since suffered her to be 36 THE HISTORY OF CHAP VII In ...
... opinion of the good squire , he had , from the time of her committing it , abandoned the poor young creature , who was then no more than eighteen , as a mon- ster , and had never since suffered her to be 36 THE HISTORY OF CHAP VII In ...
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... opinions , and to rectify your errors in policy , you know she was taken out of my hands ; so that I have nothing to answer for . Had I been trusted entirely with the care of her education , no such accident as this had ever be- fallen ...
... opinions , and to rectify your errors in policy , you know she was taken out of my hands ; so that I have nothing to answer for . Had I been trusted entirely with the care of her education , no such accident as this had ever be- fallen ...
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... opinion of her gentleness and ten- derness as of her fortitude ? At the same time , perhaps , many a woman , who shrieks at a mouse or a rat , may be capable of poisoning a husband ; or , what is worse , of driving him to poison him ...
... opinion of her gentleness and ten- derness as of her fortitude ? At the same time , perhaps , many a woman , who shrieks at a mouse or a rat , may be capable of poisoning a husband ; or , what is worse , of driving him to poison him ...
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... opinion of many readers , who have , I make no doubt , been long since well convinced of the pur- pose of our heroine , and have heartily condemned her for it as a wanton baggage . But , in reality , this was not the case . Sophia had ...
... opinion of many readers , who have , I make no doubt , been long since well convinced of the pur- pose of our heroine , and have heartily condemned her for it as a wanton baggage . But , in reality , this was not the case . Sophia had ...
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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,