The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: The history of Tom Jones, a foundlingsubscribers only, 1902 |
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... Allworthy and Mrs. Miller ............ . 271 275 CHAPTER VIII . Containing various matters ... 278 CHAPTER IX . What happened to Mr. Jones in the prison .... 285 BOOK XVIII . CONTAINING ABOUT SIX DAYS . CHAPTER I. A farewell to the ...
... Allworthy and Mrs. Miller ............ . 271 275 CHAPTER VIII . Containing various matters ... 278 CHAPTER IX . What happened to Mr. Jones in the prison .... 285 BOOK XVIII . CONTAINING ABOUT SIX DAYS . CHAPTER I. A farewell to the ...
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... Allworthy's family confirmed her in this opinion . She , therefore , strictly denied any knowledge concerning the place whither Sophia was gone ; nor could Jones obtain more than a permission to wait on her again the next even- ing ...
... Allworthy's family confirmed her in this opinion . She , therefore , strictly denied any knowledge concerning the place whither Sophia was gone ; nor could Jones obtain more than a permission to wait on her again the next even- ing ...
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... Allworthy mention the gentlewoman at whose house he used to lodge when he was in town . This person , who , as Jones likewise knew , lived in Bond Street , was the widow of a clergyman , and was left by him at his decease in possession ...
... Allworthy mention the gentlewoman at whose house he used to lodge when he was in town . This person , who , as Jones likewise knew , lived in Bond Street , was the widow of a clergyman , and was left by him at his decease in possession ...
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... Allworthy . " Partridge , " cries Jones , " you cannot see my fortune in a more desperate light than I see it myself ... Allworthy's doors would be open to receive me , I want no distress to urge me - nay , there is no other cause upon ...
... Allworthy . " Partridge , " cries Jones , " you cannot see my fortune in a more desperate light than I see it myself ... Allworthy's doors would be open to receive me , I want no distress to urge me - nay , there is no other cause upon ...
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... Allworthy ? Or what think you of a collection ? I will give them a guinea with all my heart . " Mrs. Miller made no answer ; and Nancy , to whom her mother had whispered the generosity of Jones , turned pale upon the occasion ; though ...
... Allworthy ? Or what think you of a collection ? I will give them a guinea with all my heart . " Mrs. Miller made no answer ; and Nancy , to whom her mother had whispered the generosity of Jones , turned pale upon the occasion ; though ...
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Page 151 - 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 225 - 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...
Page 33 - Initiate me into all those mysteries which profane eyes never beheld. Teach me, which to thee is no difficult task, to know mankind better than they know themselves. Remove that mist which dims the intellects of mortals, and causes them to adore men for their art, or to detest them for their cunning, in deceiving others, when they are, in reality, the objects only of ridicule, for deceiving themselves. Strip off the thin disguise of wisdom from self-conceit, of plenty from avarice, and of glory from...
Page 293 - WE are now, reader, arrived at the last stage of our long journey. As we have, therefore, travelled together through so many pages, let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage-coach, who have passed several days in the company of each other; and who, notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road, generally make all up at last, and mount, for the last time, into their vehicle with...
Page 223 - 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...
Page 221 - In the first row then of the first gallery did Mr Jones, Mrs Miller, her youngest daughter, and Partridge, take their places. Partridge immediately declared it was the finest place he had ever been in. When the first music was played, he said, " It was a wonder how so many fiddlers could play at one time, without putting one another out.
Page 224 - Upon Hamlet's taking up the skull, he cried out, 'Well! it is strange to see how fearless some men are: I never could bring myself to touch anything belonging to a dead man, on any account.— He seemed frightened...
Page 141 - A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
Page 222 - Denmark, began, Partridge was all attention, nor did he break silence till the entrance of the ghost; upon which he asked Jones: "What man that was in the strange dress; something," said he, "like what I have seen in a picture. Sure it is not armour, is it? " Jones answered: "That is the ghost.
Page 374 - ... short, let the requisite allowance be made for the increased refinement of our manners, — and then I dare believe that no young man who consulted his heart and conscience only, without adverting to what the world would say — could rise from the perusal of Fielding's Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews, or Amelia, without feeling himself a better man ; — at least, without an intense conviction that he could not be guilty of a base act.