The History of Henry Fielding, Volume 2Yale University Press, 1918 - Authors, English |
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Page 34
... receiving a " humble petition from the people calling themselves the Opposition , " who promised to submit to " his Highness , the Great Sole True Patriot of Great Britain , ” and in particular to subscribe to his newspaper . They ...
... receiving a " humble petition from the people calling themselves the Opposition , " who promised to submit to " his Highness , the Great Sole True Patriot of Great Britain , ” and in particular to subscribe to his newspaper . They ...
Page 39
... received aid from a literary hack . Was the hack his sister Sarah or Parson Young or someone else in the employ of Cooper ? Most surprising nevertheless is the extent to which Field- ing's own hand is visible in this journalistic work ...
... received aid from a literary hack . Was the hack his sister Sarah or Parson Young or someone else in the employ of Cooper ? Most surprising nevertheless is the extent to which Field- ing's own hand is visible in this journalistic work ...
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... received their names from the following occasion . These ladies being on the Surry shore , called for a boat to convey them across the water . The watermen being somewhat lazy , and not coming near enough to the land , the lady who had ...
... received their names from the following occasion . These ladies being on the Surry shore , called for a boat to convey them across the water . The watermen being somewhat lazy , and not coming near enough to the land , the lady who had ...
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... received more harm than good at this place . " " For Ovid's " bunches of grapes in Methymna " and " ears of corn in Gargara , " we have " apples in Herefordshire " and " grains of wheat in Hampshire . " In the same way Ovid's characters ...
... received more harm than good at this place . " " For Ovid's " bunches of grapes in Methymna " and " ears of corn in Gargara , " we have " apples in Herefordshire " and " grains of wheat in Hampshire . " In the same way Ovid's characters ...
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... received for the author . Be- sides having the same two booksellers for its main support , " The Jacobite's Journal " much resembled in form and style its predecessor . It had the usual four pages , begin- ning with a political essay ...
... received for the author . Be- sides having the same two booksellers for its main support , " The Jacobite's Journal " much resembled in form and style its predecessor . It had the usual four pages , begin- ning with a political essay ...
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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.