 | Carol Strickland, John Boswell - Antiques & Collectibles - 1992 - 222 pages
...Hogarth's friend, Henry Fielding, wrote in the comic novel Tom Jones, "His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage." Hogarth used many small touches to suggest the storyline of his paintings. In "Breakfast Scene," a... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...British statesman, wriier. Epigraph to The Second World War. The Gathering Storm, vol. 1 11948). 4 His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase...is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. HENRY FIELDING (1 707-54), English novelist, dramatist. Mrs. Fitzpatrick, in Tom /ones, bk. 11, ch.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...1707-1754 3472 Amelia It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. 3473 twice its natural size. 12758 A Room of One's Own...is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded 3474 There is no greater folly than to seek to correct the natural infirmities of those we love. 3475... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. FIELDING Henry 1707-1754 1356 His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase...is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. 1357 There is no greater folly than to seek to correct the natural infirmities of those we love. 1358... | |
 | Ian Watt - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 348 pages
...some marriage designs may be more vicious than the most abandoned profligacy: witness Blifil whose 'designs were strictly honourable as the phrase is, that is to rob a lady of her fortune by marriage'. He knows, too, that moral indignation against promiscuity is not necessarily the result... | |
 | Susan Scott-Hunt, Hilary Lim - Law - 2001 - 371 pages
...pp 57-58. 31 Ibid, p 40. 32 Spring, 1993, p 88. 'HIS DESIGNS WERE STRICTLY HONOURABLE, AS THE PHRASE IS: TO ROB A LADY OF HER FORTUNE BY WAY OF MARRIAGE' (Henry Fielding, The History of Tom /ones) The legal disabilities of the married woman before 188233... | |
 | Susan Scott-Hunt, Hilary Lim - Law - 2001 - 371 pages
...pp 57-58. 31 Ibid, p 40. 32 Spring, 1993, p 88. 'HIS DESIGNS WERE STRICTLY HONOURABLE, AS THE PHRASE IS: TO ROB A LADY OF HER FORTUNE BY WAY OF MARRIAGE' (Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones) The legal disabilities of the married woman before 188233... | |
 | Des MacHale - Humor - 2003 - 324 pages
...a man who has had his works cut out for him. — ROBERT BYRNE His designs were strictly honorable; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. — HENRY FIELDING Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful — provided you get between the... | |
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I made no doubt but that his designs ' were strictly honourable, as the phrase is ; that is, to ' rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. 
