The History of Tom Jones: a foundling, volume 2William Allan Neilson |
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... Appear Very Extraordinary to Most of Our Readers Which Treats of Matters of a Very Different Kind from Those in the Preceding Chapter . PAGE . 237 243 249 255 260 • X. A Chapter Which . Though Short , May Draw Tears from Some Eyes . 264 ...
... Appear Very Extraordinary to Most of Our Readers Which Treats of Matters of a Very Different Kind from Those in the Preceding Chapter . PAGE . 237 243 249 255 260 • X. A Chapter Which . Though Short , May Draw Tears from Some Eyes . 264 ...
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... appear to have wanted employment in this place : but there is one single act , for which the whole life of man is infinitely too short : what time can suffice for the contemplation and worship of that glorious , immortal , and eternal ...
... appear to have wanted employment in this place : but there is one single act , for which the whole life of man is infinitely too short : what time can suffice for the contemplation and worship of that glorious , immortal , and eternal ...
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... appear but as a few atoms opposed to the whole earth which we inhabit ? Can a man who by divine meditations is admitted as it were into the conversation of this ineffable , incomprehensible Majesty , think days , or years , or ages ...
... appear but as a few atoms opposed to the whole earth which we inhabit ? Can a man who by divine meditations is admitted as it were into the conversation of this ineffable , incomprehensible Majesty , think days , or years , or ages ...
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... appears more glaring and ridiculous from the simplicity of the low ; and again , the rudeness and barbarity of this latter , strikes with much stronger ideas of absurdity , when contrasted with , and opposed to , the politeness which ...
... appears more glaring and ridiculous from the simplicity of the low ; and again , the rudeness and barbarity of this latter , strikes with much stronger ideas of absurdity , when contrasted with , and opposed to , the politeness which ...
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... appear in such a dress ? I am sure , madam , if I had once suspected that your ladyship was your ladyship , I would sooner have burnt my tongue out , than have said what I have said ; and I hope your ladyship will accept of a gown ...
... appear in such a dress ? I am sure , madam , if I had once suspected that your ladyship was your ladyship , I would sooner have burnt my tongue out , than have said what I have said ; and I hope your ladyship will accept of a gown ...
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Popular passages
Page 333 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 13 - Hence we are to derive that universal contempt which the world, who always denominate the whole from the majority, have cast on all historical writers who do not draw their materials from records. And it is the apprehension of this contempt that hath made us so cautiously avoid the term romance, a name with which we might otherwise have been well enough contented.
Page 84 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Page 400 - O la! what noise is that? There he is again.-- Well to be certain, though I know there is nothing at all in it, I am glad I am not down yonder, where those men are.
Page 399 - I know there is nothing in them: not that it was the ghost that surprized me, neither; for I should have known that to have been only a man in a strange dress; but when I saw the little man so frightened himself, it was that which took hold of me.
Page 51 - The foibles and vices of men, in whom there is great mixture of good, become more glaring objects from the virtues which contrast them and shew their deformity ; and when we find such vices attended with their evil consequence to our favourite characters, we are not only taught to shun, them for our own sake, but to hate them for the mischiefs they have already brought on those we love.
Page 220 - ... charming ages yet to come. Foretel me that some tender maid, whose grandmother is yet unborn, hereafter, when, under the fictitious name of Sophia, she reads the real worth which once existed in my Charlotte, shall from her sympathetic breast send forth the heaving sigh. Do thou teach me not only to foresee, but to enjoy, nay, even to feed on future praise. Comfort me by...
Page 401 - No wonder then," cries Partridge, "that the place is haunted. But I never saw in my life a worse gravedigger. I had a sexton, when I was clerk, that should have dug three graves while he is digging one. The fellow handles a spade as if it was the first time he had ever had one in his hand.
Page 400 - Partridge sat in fearful expectation of this; and now, when the ghost made his next appearance, Partridge cried out, " There, sir, now! what say you now? Is he frightened now, or no? As much frightened as you think me, — and to be sure, nobody can help some fears. I would not be in so bad a condition as what 's his name, — Squire Hamlet, — is there, for all the world.
Page 402 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer ; ' why, I could act as well as he myself. 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, Lord help me, any man, that is any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same. I know you are only joking with me ; but, indeed, madam, though I was never at a play in London,...