The History of Henry Fielding, Volume 2Yale University Press, 1918 - Authors, English |
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... Murder 250 XXII . The Story of Amelia 301 XXIII . The Failure of Amelia 328 XXIV . The Covent - Garden Journal 357 XXV . Battle of the Wits . 386 396311 ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME TWO Henry Fielding Frontispiece From a photograph of.
... Murder 250 XXII . The Story of Amelia 301 XXIII . The Failure of Amelia 328 XXIV . The Covent - Garden Journal 357 XXV . Battle of the Wits . 386 396311 ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME TWO Henry Fielding Frontispiece From a photograph of.
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... story got into the " Annual Register " of 1762 that after attending the judges on the Western Circuit for two or three years without success , he then published pro- posals for a new law book , which raised him in so high favour among ...
... story got into the " Annual Register " of 1762 that after attending the judges on the Western Circuit for two or three years without success , he then published pro- posals for a new law book , which raised him in so high favour among ...
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... story ; and for the second impression he certainly reread much of the novel , correcting " grammati- cal and other errors in style , " and occasionally inserting a piquant phrase , especially in the chapter headings . But all the ...
... story ; and for the second impression he certainly reread much of the novel , correcting " grammati- cal and other errors in style , " and occasionally inserting a piquant phrase , especially in the chapter headings . But all the ...
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... story he tells of a woman who lost her husband in the summer , married another in the autumn , and on his death in the winter , died herself . Their friends took up the corpse of the first husband , dug the grave deeper , and put all ...
... story he tells of a woman who lost her husband in the summer , married another in the autumn , and on his death in the winter , died herself . Their friends took up the corpse of the first husband , dug the grave deeper , and put all ...
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... story of a gentleman who attempted to force his daughter to marry a man she did not love , sounds more like Sarah than Henry Fielding . Number twenty - five , a letter signed " Philander " on true and false patriotism , bears none of ...
... story of a gentleman who attempted to force his daughter to marry a man she did not love , sounds more like Sarah than Henry Fielding . Number twenty - five , a letter signed " Philander " on true and false patriotism , bears none of ...
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Page 124 - Which lives as long as fools are pleased to laugh. Some, valuing those of their own side or mind, Still make themselves the measure of mankind: Fondly we think we honour merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Page 324 - H. Fielding has given a true picture of himself and his first wife in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure excepted ; and I am persuaded, several of the incidents he mentions are real matters of fact.
Page 126 - TO THE COUNTESS OF BUTE. Venice, Oct. 1, NS 1748. MY DEAR CHILD, I HAVE at length received the box, with the books enclosed ; for which I give you many thanks, as they amused me very much. I gave a very ridiculous proof of it, fitter indeed for my grand-daughter than myself. I returned from a party on horseback ; and after having rode twenty miles, part of it by moonshine, it was ten at night when I found the box arrived. I could not deny myself the pleasure of opening it : and, falling upon Fielding's...
Page 162 - ... fine park, composed of very unequal ground, and agreeably varied with all the diversity that hills, lawns, wood, and water, laid out with admirable taste, but owing less to art than to nature, could give. Beyond this, the country gradually rose into a ridge of wild mountains, the tops of which were above the clouds.
Page 174 - 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 any man, that is, any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same.
Page 268 - But if we were to make a progress through the outskirts of this town, and look into the habitations of the poor, we should there behold such pictures of human misery as must move the compassion of every heart that deserves the name of human. What, indeed, must be his composition who could see whole families in want of every necessary of life, oppressed with hunger, cold, nakedness, and filth; and with diseases, the certain consequences of all these - what, I say, must be his composition who could...
Page 225 - Bathurst t'other night carried a servant of the latter 's, who had attempted to shoot him, before Fielding; who, to all his other vocations, has, by the grace of Mr. Lyttelton, added that of Middlesex justice. He sent them word he was at supper, that they must come next morning.
Page 340 - I can truly say that I bestowed a more than ordinary Pains in her Education; in which I will venture to affirm, I followed the Eules of all those who are acknowledged to have writ best on the Subject; and if .her Conduct be fairly examined, she will be found to deviate very little from the strictest Observation of all those Rules ; neither Homer nor Virgil pursued them with greater Care than myself, and the candid and learned Reader will see that the latter was the noble model, which I made use of...
Page 22 - AY me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron ! What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with after-claps...
Page 128 - In comparing those two writers, he used this expression ; " that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate.