The history of Tom Jones, a foundling, with illustr. by G. Cruikshank, Volume 21876 |
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... opinion . To be sure , it is a scandalous way of travelling , for a great gentleman 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 trusting you with ...
... opinion . To be sure , it is a scandalous way of travelling , for a great gentleman 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 trusting you with ...
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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 monster , and had never since suffered her to be named in his presence . The ...
... 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 monster , and had never since suffered her to be named in his presence . The ...
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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 no- thing to answer for . Had I been trusted entirely with the care of her education , no such accident as this had ever be ...
... opinions , and to rectify your errors in policy , you know she was taken out of my hands ; so that I have no- thing to answer for . Had I been trusted entirely with the care of her education , no such accident as this had ever be ...
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... opinion of her gentleness and tenderness 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- self ...
... opinion of her gentleness and tenderness 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- self ...
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... opinion of many readers , who have , I make no doubt , been long since well convinced of the purpose of our heroine , and have heartily condemned her for it as a wanton baggage . But in reality this was not the case . Sophia had been ...
... opinion of many readers , who have , I make no doubt , been long since well convinced of the purpose of our heroine , and have heartily condemned her for it as a wanton baggage . But in reality this was not the case . Sophia had been ...
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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.