The History of Henry Fielding, Volume 2Yale University Press, 1918 - Authors, English |
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... Booth . Fielding's grief at the loss of his wife was so vehement , says Murphy , that his friends thought him " in danger of losing his reason . ' But " when the first emotions of his sorrow were abated , philosophy administered her aid ...
... Booth . Fielding's grief at the loss of his wife was so vehement , says Murphy , that his friends thought him " in danger of losing his reason . ' But " when the first emotions of his sorrow were abated , philosophy administered her aid ...
Page 313
... Booth is a fellow of perfect good nature , courteous and frank in manner , with no positive inclination to vice , though not likely to exert any heroic power of resistance against the temptations of the flesh . His bravery has been ...
... Booth is a fellow of perfect good nature , courteous and frank in manner , with no positive inclination to vice , though not likely to exert any heroic power of resistance against the temptations of the flesh . His bravery has been ...
Page 314
... Booth tried his hand at farm- ing . All went well while Dr. Harrison remained in the neighbourhood ; but when he was sent abroad as governor to the son of his patron , disaster quickly followed 314 THE HISTORY OF HENRY FIELDING.
... Booth tried his hand at farm- ing . All went well while Dr. Harrison remained in the neighbourhood ; but when he was sent abroad as governor to the son of his patron , disaster quickly followed 314 THE HISTORY OF HENRY FIELDING.
Page 315
... Booth fled to London for refuge within the verge of the court ; and his wife followed him with the children . The lieutenant took lodgings for his family up two pair of stairs at the house of a Mrs. Ellison in Spring Gardens , on the ...
... Booth fled to London for refuge within the verge of the court ; and his wife followed him with the children . The lieutenant took lodgings for his family up two pair of stairs at the house of a Mrs. Ellison in Spring Gardens , on the ...
Page 316
... Booth when his unsuspecting temper is played upon by wills stronger than his own , may be in part anticipated ; but what will happen to Amelia is less certain . Will she go the way of that clergyman's widow , the estimable Mrs. Bennet ...
... Booth when his unsuspecting temper is played upon by wills stronger than his own , may be in part anticipated ; but what will happen to Amelia is less certain . Will she go the way of that clergyman's widow , the estimable Mrs. Bennet ...
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Page 125 - 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 327 - 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 303 - On the contrary (said he), you may observe there is always something which she prefers to truth. Fielding's Amelia ' was the most pleasing heroine of all the romances (he said) ; but that vile broken nose never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.
Page 127 - 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 163 - ... 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 175 - 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 226 - 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 167 - When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion ; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion ; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
Page 103 - In like manner the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject, than in the author's skill in well dressing it up. How pleased therefore will the reader be to find, that we have, in the following work, adhered closely to one of the highest principles of the best cook which the present age, or perhaps that of Heliogabalus, hath produced...
Page 129 - 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.