The history of Tom Jones, a foundling, with illustr. by G. Cruikshank, Volume 21876 |
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... affection of a well - disposed mind , though there should appear some of those little blemishes , quas humana parum cavit natura , they will raise our com- passion rather than our abhorrence . Indeed , nothing can be of more moral use ...
... affection of a well - disposed mind , though there should appear some of those little blemishes , quas humana parum cavit natura , they will raise our com- passion rather than our abhorrence . Indeed , nothing can be of more moral use ...
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... affection for her remained in him , would be at least some punishment for his faults . The reader will be pleased to remember a little muff , which hath had the honour of being more than once remembered already in this history . This ...
... affection for her remained in him , would be at least some punishment for his faults . The reader will be pleased to remember a little muff , which hath had the honour of being more than once remembered already in this history . This ...
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... affection , but the interest , of the author may be highly injured by these slanderers , whose poisonous breath brings his book to an untimely end . Lastly , the slander of a book is , in truth , the slander of the author : for , as no ...
... affection , but the interest , of the author may be highly injured by these slanderers , whose poisonous breath brings his book to an untimely end . Lastly , the slander of a book is , in truth , the slander of the author : for , as no ...
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... affection for her man . You will as easily believe that this affection may possibly be lessened ; nay , I do assure you , contempt will wholly eradicate it . This contempt I now began to enter- tain for my husband , whom I now ...
... affection for her man . You will as easily believe that this affection may possibly be lessened ; nay , I do assure you , contempt will wholly eradicate it . This contempt I now began to enter- tain for my husband , whom I now ...
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... affectionate . How far me deserve deir good - will , me no say ; but dis me can say , dat me never design anyting but to do dem good . Me sall no do boast of dat neider : for what can me do oderwise dan consider of de good of dose poor ...
... affectionate . How far me deserve deir good - will , me no say ; but dis me can say , dat me never design anyting but to do dem good . Me sall no do boast of dat neider : for what can me do oderwise dan consider of de good of dose poor ...
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Page 274 - 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.
Page 47 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Page 340 - did not you yourself observe afterwards, when he found it was his own father's spirit, and how he was murdered in the garden, how his fear forsook him by degrees, and he was struck dumb with sorrow, as it were, just as I should have been, had it been my own case ? — But...
Page 222 - Vanbrugh and Congreve copied nature ; but they who copy them draw as unlike the present age, as Hogarth would 5 do if he was to paint a rout or a drum in the dresses of Titian and of Vandyke. In short, imitation here will not do the business. The picture must be after nature herself. A true knowledge of the world is gained only by conversation, and the manners of every rank must be seen in order to be known.
Page 165 - Foretell 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...
Page 341 - 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 a 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.
Page 341 - Little more worth remembering occurred during the play ; at the end of which Jones asked him which of the players he liked best. To this he answered, with some appearance of indignation at the question :
Page 342 - He the best player!" 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. 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...
Page 341 - 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.
Page 340 - 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 1 As much frightened as you think me, and, to be sure, nobody can help some fears.