The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: The history of Tom Jones, a foundlingsubscribers only, 1902 |
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... arrival in London ..... CHAPTER III . 31 34 A project of Mrs. Fitzpatrick , and her visit to Lady Bellaston ...... 41 CHAPTER IV . Which consists of visiting .. TOM JONES , VOL . III . 44 CHAPTER V. PAGE An adventure which happened to ...
... arrival in London ..... CHAPTER III . 31 34 A project of Mrs. Fitzpatrick , and her visit to Lady Bellaston ...... 41 CHAPTER IV . Which consists of visiting .. TOM JONES , VOL . III . 44 CHAPTER V. PAGE An adventure which happened to ...
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... arrived while the company were at breakfast , with some hints concerning the government of daughters .. CHAPTER VII . Containing the whole humors of a masquerade .. CHAPTER VIII . ... 47 54 .... 61 Containing a scene of distress , which ...
... arrived while the company were at breakfast , with some hints concerning the government of daughters .. CHAPTER VII . Containing the whole humors of a masquerade .. CHAPTER VIII . ... 47 54 .... 61 Containing a scene of distress , which ...
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... arrival of a person not yet mentioned in this history .. Containing strange matters .. CHAPTER IX . CHAPTER X A short chapter , which concludes the book .... ......... 127 135 139 BOOK XV . IN WHICH THE HISTORY ADVANCES ABOUT TWO DAYS ...
... arrival of a person not yet mentioned in this history .. Containing strange matters .. CHAPTER IX . CHAPTER X A short chapter , which concludes the book .... ......... 127 135 139 BOOK XV . IN WHICH THE HISTORY ADVANCES ABOUT TWO DAYS ...
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... The generous and grateful behavior of Mrs. Miller ..... 247 249 CHAPTER III . The arrival of Mr. Western , with some matters concerning the paternal authority . 253 CHAPTER IV . An extraordinary scene between Sophia and her CONTENTS . 5.
... The generous and grateful behavior of Mrs. Miller ..... 247 249 CHAPTER III . The arrival of Mr. Western , with some matters concerning the paternal authority . 253 CHAPTER IV . An extraordinary scene between Sophia and her CONTENTS . 5.
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... arrived at the place whence the lights and different noises had issued . This Jones perceived to be no other than a barn , where a great number of men and women were assembled , and diverting themselves with much apparent jollity ...
... arrived at the place whence the lights and different noises had issued . This Jones perceived to be no other than a barn , where a great number of men and women were assembled , and diverting themselves with much apparent jollity ...
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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.