| 1804 - 552 pages
...has given a true picture of himself and his first wife, in the characters of Air and Mrs Booth, some compliments to his own figure excepted ; and, I am...fact. I wonder he does not perceive Tom Jones and Mr Booth are sorry scoundrels. All this sort of books have the same fault, which I cannot easily pardon,... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1805 - 296 pages
...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...fact. I wonder he does not perceive Tom Jones and Mr. Booth are sorry scoundrels. All this sort of books have the same fault, which I cannot easily pardon,... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1817 - 374 pages
...first wife, in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure excppted ; and, I am persuaded, several of the incidents he mentions...fact. I wonder he does not perceive Tom Jones and Mr. Booth are sorry scoundrels. All this sort of books have the same fault, which I cannot easily pardon,... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 346 pages
...first wife, in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure except cd ; and, I am persuaded, several of the incidents he mentions...fact. I wonder he does not perceive Tom Jones and Mr. Booth are sorry scoundrels. All this sort of books have the same fanlt, which I cannot easily pardon,... | |
| Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 484 pages
...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...sorry scoundrels. All this sort of books have the eame fault, which I cannot easily pardon, being very mischievous. They place a merit in extravagant... | |
| Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 506 pages
...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...fact. I wonder he does not perceive Tom Jones and JVIr Booth are sorry scoundrels. All this sort of books have the same fault, which I cannot easily... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 454 pages
...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...fact. I wonder he does not perceive Tom Jones and Mr. Booth are sorry scoundrels. All this sort of books have the same fault, which I cannot easily pardon,... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - English literature - 1837 - 684 pages
...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...fact. I wonder he does not perceive Tom Jones and Mr. Booth are sorry scoundrels. All this sort of books have the same fault, which 1 cannot easily pardon,... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 622 pages
...given a true picture of himself and his first wife, in the characters of Mr. ağd Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure excepted ; and I am...incidents he mentions are real matters of fact. I wonder, however, that he does not perceive Tom Jones and Mr. Booth to be both sorry scoundrels. All this sort... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 754 pages
...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,...incidents he mentions are real matters of fact. I wonder, however, that he does not perceive Tom Jones and Mr. Booth to be both sorry scoundrels. All this sort... | |
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