The Novelist's Magazine, Volume 3Harrison and Company, 1781 A collection of separately paged novels. |
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Pagina 232 - Majefty on High ; being made fo ' much better than the angels, as he ' hath by inheritance obtained a more ' excellent name than they. • We then may make an happy
Pagina 92 - hath been ever aflced, why a play may not contain two days as well as one ? Or why the audience (provided they travel, like electors, without any expence) may not be wafted fifty miles, as well as five? Hath any commentator well accounted for the limitation which an ancient
Pagina 319 - a word, which, in common converfation, is often ufed to fignify not only improbable, but often what is really very likely, and fometimes, what hath certainly happened: an hyperbolical violence like that which is fo frequently offered to the words infinite and eternal ; by the former of which, it is ufual to exprefs a
Pagina 188 - Nor is poffibility alone fufficient to juftify us, we muft keep likewife within the rules of probability. It is, I think, the opinion of Ariftotle; or if not, it is the opinion of fome wife man, whofe authority will be as weighty, when it is as old ;
Pagina 98 - had that conflict with himfelf, which we have feen in the preceding chapter, Mrs. Honour came into his room, and finding him alone, began in the following manner: ' La, Sir, where do you think I have been ? I warrants you, you would not guefs in fifty years ; but if you did guefs, to be
Pagina 144 - no remembrance on the other fide. When dinner was over, and the fervants departed, Mr. Allworthy began to harangue. He fet forth, in a long fpeech, the many iniquities of which Jones had been guilty, particularly thofe which this day had brought to light; and concluded by telling him, that unlefs he could clear
Pagina 181 - a large mefs of chicken, or rather cock, broth, with a very good appetite, as indeed he would have done the cock it was made of, with a pound of bacon into the bargain; and now, finding in himfelf no deficiency of either health or fpirit, he refolved to get up and
Pagina 264 - and that he could not carry all the law in his head about ftealing away daughters, and fuch fort of things. Mr. Fitzpatrick declared that the law concerning daughters was out of the prefent cafe ; that ftealing a muff was undoubtedly felony, and the goods being found upon the perfon, were fufficient evidence of the
Pagina 6 - there lately lived (and perhaps lives ftill) a gentleman whofe name was Allworthy, and who might well be called the favourite of both nature and fortune ; for both of thefe feem to have contended which mould blefs and enrich him moft. In this contention, nature may feem to fome to have
Pagina 187 - to indulge a wanton and extravagant imagination, took refuge in that power, of the extent of which his readers were no judges, or rather which they imagined to be infinite; and confequently they could not be mocked at any prodigies related of it. This hath been ftrongly urged in