The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: The history of Tom Jones, a foundlingsubscribers only, 1902 |
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... offered the fellow a guinea . To which he immediately answered , " He hoped his honor would not think of giving him less than five . " This sum , after some altercation , was reduced to two ; and Jones , having stipulated for the full ...
... offered the fellow a guinea . To which he immediately answered , " He hoped his honor would not think of giving him less than five . " This sum , after some altercation , was reduced to two ; and Jones , having stipulated for the full ...
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... offered to deliver it ; but the other answered with an oath , That would not do . Jones answered coolly , he was very sorry for it , and returned the money into his pocket . The highwayman then threatened , if he did not deliver the ...
... offered to deliver it ; but the other answered with an oath , That would not do . Jones answered coolly , he was very sorry for it , and returned the money into his pocket . The highwayman then threatened , if he did not deliver the ...
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... of all which the highwayman most vehemently asserted , and offered to convince Mr. Jones of it , if he would take the trouble to go to his house , which was not above two miles off , saying , " That he 28 THE HISTORY OF.
... of all which the highwayman most vehemently asserted , and offered to convince Mr. Jones of it , if he would take the trouble to go to his house , which was not above two miles off , saying , " That he 28 THE HISTORY OF.
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... offered to excuse himself on the inequality of firearms , saying , " A thousand naked men are nothing to one pistol ; for though it is true it will kill but one at a single discharge , yet who can tell but that one may be himself ...
... offered to excuse himself on the inequality of firearms , saying , " A thousand naked men are nothing to one pistol ; for though it is true it will kill but one at a single discharge , yet who can tell but that one may be himself ...
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... offered to conduct him thither . The young gentleman , at the same time , offered tickets to Miss Nancy and her mother ; but the good woman would not accept them . She said , " she did not conceive the harm which some people imagined in ...
... offered to conduct him thither . The young gentleman , at the same time , offered tickets to Miss Nancy and her mother ; but the good woman would not accept them . She said , " she did not conceive the harm which some people imagined in ...
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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.