The Life of Henry Fielding: With Notices of His Writings, His Times, and His ContemporariesA. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1855 - 384 pagina's |
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The Life of Henry Fielding: With Notices of His Writings, His Times, and His ... Frederick Lawrence Volledige weergave - 1855 |
The Life of Henry Fielding: With Notices of His Writings, His Times, and His ... Frederick Lawrence Volledige weergave - 1855 |
The Life of Henry Fielding: With Notices of His Writings, His Times, and His ... Frederick Lawrence Volledige weergave - 1855 |
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Pagina 378 - Twelfth Night:"— " Let still the woman take An elder than herself; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than women's are.
Pagina 353 - His happy constitution (even when he had with great pains half demolished it) made him forget every evil when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne; and I am persuaded he has known more happy moments than any prince on earth. His natural spirits gave him rapture with his cookmaid,
Pagina 14 - morocco elegant, 28s. NINA, a Tale by SM Fcap. cloth, 2s. 6d. NINEVEH AND PERSEPOLIS: an Historical Sketch of Ancient Assyria and Persia, with an Account of the recent Researches in those Countries. By WSW VAUX, MA of the British Museum. With numerous Illustrations. Fourth Edition, post 8vo. cloth, 8s.;
Pagina 244 - the melancholy truth that among the variety of actions which men are liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies, without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.
Pagina 26 - Henley stands, Timing his voice, and balancing his hands. How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue! How sweet the periods, neither said nor sung! Still break the benches, Henley! with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson preach in vain. Oh, great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once, and zany of thy age!
Pagina 360 - Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward; a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had no resolution to fire it off himself, but left half-a-crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death."*
Pagina 265 - have done exactly the same. I know you are only joking with me; but indeed, madam, though I was never at a play in London, yet I have seen acting before in the country; and the king for my money; he speaks all his words distinctly, half as loud again as the other. Anybody may see he is an actor.
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Pagina 356 - He was the inventor of that cant phrase, goodness of heart, which is every day used as a substitute for probity, and means little more than the virtue of a horse or a dog; in short, he has done more towards corrupting the rising generation than any writer we know of.
Pagina 102 - is the property of those that have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on.' It is, indeed, but a precarious dependence. Thank God ! we, my lords, have a dependence of another kind; we have a much less precarious support, and