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Henry Fielding, Howard Maynadier. SOPHIA INTERVIEWS THE MAID AT UPTON " Is there a young gentleman in this house , a hand- some young gentleman , that - ཏ PAGE 52 THE WORKS OF HENRY FIELDING VOLUME FIVE THE HISTORY OF.
Henry Fielding, Howard Maynadier. SOPHIA INTERVIEWS THE MAID AT UPTON " Is there a young gentleman in this house , a hand- some young gentleman , that - ཏ PAGE 52 THE WORKS OF HENRY FIELDING VOLUME FIVE THE HISTORY OF.
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... young lady ; which may teach persons of condition how they may acquire the love of the whole world CHAPTER FOUR Containing infallible nostrums for procuring uni- versal disesteem and hatred · CHAPTER FIVE Showing who the amiable lady ...
... young lady ; which may teach persons of condition how they may acquire the love of the whole world CHAPTER FOUR Containing infallible nostrums for procuring uni- versal disesteem and hatred · CHAPTER FIVE Showing who the amiable lady ...
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... young gen- tleman who lodged there , and of the mistress of the house , and her two daughters CHAPTER SIX What arrived while the company were at break- fast , with some hints concerning the govern- ment of daughters . CHAPTER SEVEN 282 ...
... young gen- tleman who lodged there , and of the mistress of the house , and her two daughters CHAPTER SIX What arrived while the company were at break- fast , with some hints concerning the govern- ment of daughters . CHAPTER SEVEN 282 ...
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... young fellows in the world . His face , besides being the picture of health , had in it the most apparent marks of sweetness and good- nature . These qualities were indeed so charac- teristical in his countenance , that , while the ...
... young fellows in the world . His face , besides being the picture of health , had in it the most apparent marks of sweetness and good- nature . These qualities were indeed so charac- teristical in his countenance , that , while the ...
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... young ladies and young gentlemen too learn from others , and the many improvements which , by the help of a looking - glass , they add of their own , are in reality those very spicula et faces amoris so often mentioned by Ovid ; or , as ...
... young ladies and young gentlemen too learn from others , and the many improvements which , by the help of a looking - glass , they add of their own , are in reality those very spicula et faces amoris so often mentioned by Ovid ; or , as ...
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Page 261 - Comfort me by a solemn assurance, that when the little parlour in which I sit at this instant shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read with honour by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.
Page 71 - 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 26 - 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 260 - ... 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 264 - Nor with them only, but with every kind of character, from the minister at his levee, to the bailiff in his spunging-house; from the duchess at her drum, to the landlady behind her bar. From thee only can the manners of mankind be known; to which the recluse pedant, however great his parts or extensive his learning may be, hath ever been a stranger.
Page 24 - This work may, indeed, be considered as a great creation of our own ; and for a little reptile of a critic to presume to find fault with any of its parts, without knowing the manner in which the whole is connected, and before he comes to the final catastrophe, is a most presumptuous absurdity.
Page 89 - Vice hath not, I believe, a more abject slave ; society produces not a more odious vermin ; nor can the devil receive a guest more worthy of him, nor possibly more welcome to him, than a slanderer.
Page 31 - Bath, to try his. luck with cards and the women. This young fellow lay in bed reading one of Mrs. Behn's novels; for he had been instructed by a friend, that he would find no more effectual method of recommending himself to the ladies, than the improving his understanding, and filling his mind with good literature.