The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: The history of Tom Jones, a foundlingsubscribers only, 1902 |
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... was ever childish enough to believe , though many have been foolish enough to spend their time in writing and reading their ad- ventures . To prevent , therefore , any such apprehensions , so TOM JONES : A FOUNDLING . 13.
... was ever childish enough to believe , though many have been foolish enough to spend their time in writing and reading their ad- ventures . To prevent , therefore , any such apprehensions , so TOM JONES : A FOUNDLING . 13.
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... believe you be surprise for me suppose you have ver bad opinion of my people ; me suppose you tink us all de tieves . " " I must confess , sir , " said Jones , " I have not heard so favorable an account of them as they seem to deserve ...
... believe you be surprise for me suppose you have ver bad opinion of my people ; me suppose you tink us all de tieves . " " I must confess , sir , " said Jones , " I have not heard so favorable an account of them as they seem to deserve ...
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... believe all the man had told him , before Partridge came up : namely , that he was a novice in the trade , and that he had been driven to it by the distress he mentioned , the greatest in- deed imaginable , that of five hungry children ...
... believe all the man had told him , before Partridge came up : namely , that he was a novice in the trade , and that he had been driven to it by the distress he mentioned , the greatest in- deed imaginable , that of five hungry children ...
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... believe is in love with him by reputation . " Here the reader will be apt to wonder ; but the truth is , that Mrs. Etoff , who had the honor to pin and unpin the lady Bellaston , had received complete information concerning the said Mr ...
... believe is in love with him by reputation . " Here the reader will be apt to wonder ; but the truth is , that Mrs. Etoff , who had the honor to pin and unpin the lady Bellaston , had received complete information concerning the said Mr ...
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... believe , think me excusable . I hap- pened to come home several hours before my usual time , when I found four gentleman of the cloth at whist by my fire - and my Hoyle , sir - my best Hoyle , which cost me a guinea , lying open on the ...
... believe , think me excusable . I hap- pened to come home several hours before my usual time , when I found four gentleman of the cloth at whist by my fire - and my Hoyle , sir - my best Hoyle , which cost me a guinea , lying open on the ...
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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.