The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen21,Parte3F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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... children from instant destruc- tion , may I have a friend capable of disowning me in adversity ! O you are an excellent young man ! cries Mrs. Miller : Yes , indeed , poor creature ! he hath ven- tured every thing - If he had not had ...
... children from instant destruc- tion , may I have a friend capable of disowning me in adversity ! O you are an excellent young man ! cries Mrs. Miller : Yes , indeed , poor creature ! he hath ven- tured every thing - If he had not had ...
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... children have now a bed to lie on , - and they have - they have - eternal blessings reward you for it ! -they have bread to eat . My little boy is recovered , my wife is out of danger , and I am happy . All , all owing to you , sir ...
... children have now a bed to lie on , - and they have - they have - eternal blessings reward you for it ! -they have bread to eat . My little boy is recovered , my wife is out of danger , and I am happy . All , all owing to you , sir ...
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... child , said the lady : It would have been cruel before ; but after you promised me never to marry without your father's consent , in which you know is implied your giving up Jones , sure you can bear a little raillery on a passion ...
... child , said the lady : It would have been cruel before ; but after you promised me never to marry without your father's consent , in which you know is implied your giving up Jones , sure you can bear a little raillery on a passion ...
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... children to pro- vide for ; and was , if possible , more pennyless than ever , when that great , that good , that glorious man , Mr. Allworthy , who had some little ac- quaintance with my husband , accidentally heard of my distress ...
... children to pro- vide for ; and was , if possible , more pennyless than ever , when that great , that good , that glorious man , Mr. Allworthy , who had some little ac- quaintance with my husband , accidentally heard of my distress ...
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... children , for whose sake alone my life is valuable . Do not , therefore , think me impertinent , Mr. Jones ( since I must esteem one for whom I know Mr. Allworthy hath so much value ) , if I beg you not to converse with these wicked ...
... children , for whose sake alone my life is valuable . Do not , therefore , think me impertinent , Mr. Jones ( since I must esteem one for whom I know Mr. Allworthy hath so much value ) , if I beg you not to converse with these wicked ...
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Página 133 - 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 213 - cries 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.
Página 213 - ... critic was now pretty silent till the play, which Hamlet introduces before the king. This he did not at first understand, till Jones explained it to him; but he no sooner entered into the spirit of it, than he began to bless himself that he had never committed murder. Then turning to Mrs. Miller, he asked her, "If she did not imagine the King looked as if he was touched; though he is," said he, "a good actor, and doth all he can to hide it.
Página 210 - To which Partridge replied, with a smile, Persuade me to that, sir, if you can. Though I can't say I ever actually saw a ghost in my life, yet I am certain I should know one, if I saw him, better than that comes to. No, no, sir ; ghosts don't appear in such dresses as that neither.
Página 209 - That refined degree of Platonic affection which is absolutely detached from the flesh, and is indeed entirely and purely spiritual, is a gift confined to the female part of the creation ; many of whom I have heard declare (and doubtless with great truth) that they would, with the utmost readiness, resign a lover to a rival, when such resignation was proved to be necessary for the temporal interest of such lover.
Página 213 - No wonder, then," cries Partridge, " that the place is haunted. But I never saw in my life a worse grave-digger. 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. Ay, ay, you may sing. You had rather sing than work, I believe.
Página 210 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything ; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company ; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Página 212 - During the second act, Partridge made very few remarks. He greatly admired the fineness of the dresses; nor could he help observing upon the king's countenance. "Well," said he, "how people may be deceived by faces?
Página 212 - 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 211 - ... things, though I know there is nothing in them : not that it was the ghost that surprised 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.