The History of Henry Fielding, Volume 2Yale University Press, 1918 - Authors, English |
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... given sanction to the Pretender's cause . " All this redounded to the glory of Scotland . The politics of the first number were enliv- ened by ridicule of the Pretender and his master the Pope , and by " A Loyal Song " to the tune of ...
... given sanction to the Pretender's cause . " All this redounded to the glory of Scotland . The politics of the first number were enliv- ened by ridicule of the Pretender and his master the Pope , and by " A Loyal Song " to the tune of ...
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... given very early proofs of a great genius in his profession of portrait painting . " Of Lord Wyndham , formerly " Lord Chancellor of the Kingdom of Ireland , " who had retired to Salisbury when his health broke , and had since come to X ...
... given very early proofs of a great genius in his profession of portrait painting . " Of Lord Wyndham , formerly " Lord Chancellor of the Kingdom of Ireland , " who had retired to Salisbury when his health broke , and had since come to X ...
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... given over wholly to lying and luxury , but " a total amendment of life , a total change of manners . " Subsequently Parson Adams had another discourse on the divine wrath that was overtaking a nation bent upon its own destruction ...
... given over wholly to lying and luxury , but " a total amendment of life , a total change of manners . " Subsequently Parson Adams had another discourse on the divine wrath that was overtaking a nation bent upon its own destruction ...
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... given to Father Poignardini , and the Bishoprics of Winchester and Ely , to the General of the Jesuits Order , resident in Italy . " March 1. The French Ambassador made a Duke , with Precedence . " March 4. An eminent Physician fined ...
... given to Father Poignardini , and the Bishoprics of Winchester and Ely , to the General of the Jesuits Order , resident in Italy . " March 1. The French Ambassador made a Duke , with Precedence . " March 4. An eminent Physician fined ...
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... given with the punning query : " Whether these be serjeants at law , or of the army ? " Though Fielding himself was unable to bear arms , he took an active interest in the measures for the defence of the kingdom . Perhaps he wrote that ...
... given with the punning query : " Whether these be serjeants at law , or of the army ? " Though Fielding himself was unable to bear arms , he took an active interest in the measures for the defence of the kingdom . Perhaps he wrote that ...
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Page 128 - 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 330 - 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 435 - ... those Kinds of Writing that are apt to promote it. On the contrary, few Men, I believe, do more admire the Works of those great Masters who have sent their Satire (if I may use the Expression) laughing into the World. Such are that great Triumvirate, Lucian, Cervantes, and Swift. These Authors...
Page 130 - 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 166 - ... 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 178 - 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 170 - 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 274 - 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 229 - 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 213 - Fielding has departed from this admirable sketch. As an English squire, Western ought not to have taken a beating so unresistingly from the friend of Lord Fellamar.