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,... The History of Henry Fielding - Page 274by Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918Full view - About this book
| Anna Maria Hall - 838 pages
...through the outskirts of the town, and look into the habitations of the poor, we should there bchold such pictures of human misery as must move the compassion of every heart that deserves the name of human ; whole families in want of every necessary of life, oppressed with hunger, cold, nakedness, and filth,... | |
| Frederick Lawrence - Authors, English - 1855 - 430 pages
...following pathetic terms : " If," said he, " we were to make a progress through the outskirts of the town, and look into the habitations of the poor, we should...compassion of every heart that deserves the name of human ; whole families in want of every necessary of life, oppressed with hunger, cold, nakedness, and filth,... | |
| Frederick Lawrence - Authors, English - 1855 - 398 pages
...pictures of human misery as must move the compassion of every heart that deserves the name of human ; whole families in want of every necessary of life,...with diseases, the certain consequence of all these." To afford relief to this wide-spread wretchedness, and to provide an asylum for the houseless poor... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1891 - 928 pages
...through the outskirts of the metropolis, and look for the habitations of the poor, we should theie behold such pictures of human misery as must move...could see whole families in want of every necessary of liie, oppressed with hunger, cold, nakedness, and filth, and with diseases the certain consequences... | |
| Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley - English literature - 1902 - 318 pages
...abhorrence, and so seldom with pity. But if we were to make a progress through the outskirts of this town, and look into the habitations of the poor, we should...nakedness, and filth; and with diseases, the certain consequences of all these — what, I say, must be his composition who could look into such a scene... | |
| Candace Ward - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 306 pages
...Provision of the Poor, published one hundred years before Bleak House. How, asks Fielding, can anyone "behold such Pictures of human Misery as must move the Compassion of every Heart" and "see whole Families in Want of every Necessary of Life, oppressed with Hunger, Cold, Nakedness,... | |
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