The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century: In Illustration of the Manners and Morals of the AgeD. Appleton, 1871 - 339 pagina's |
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Pagina 11
... known names , are deplorably dull . Their plots are contemptible , and the style is detestable . But , however poor the incidents , or inartistic the construc- tion , the writers unconsciously give us hints when they least intended it ...
... known names , are deplorably dull . Their plots are contemptible , and the style is detestable . But , however poor the incidents , or inartistic the construc- tion , the writers unconsciously give us hints when they least intended it ...
Pagina 26
... known ballad ' John Anderson my Jo John , ' in addition to a depth and constancy of character of no every - day occur- rence , supposes a peculiar sensibility and tenderness of nature , a constitutional communicativeness and utterance ...
... known ballad ' John Anderson my Jo John , ' in addition to a depth and constancy of character of no every - day occur- rence , supposes a peculiar sensibility and tenderness of nature , a constitutional communicativeness and utterance ...
Pagina 35
... known or less lamented . ' This purported to be the correspondence between Miss Ray , the mis- tress of Lord Sandwich , and the Rev. Mr. Hackman , who shot her at the door of the opera , and was afterward hanged . was the head - for ...
... known or less lamented . ' This purported to be the correspondence between Miss Ray , the mis- tress of Lord Sandwich , and the Rev. Mr. Hackman , who shot her at the door of the opera , and was afterward hanged . was the head - for ...
Pagina 40
... known as the ' Amorous Widow , ' by Betterton , a sort of free translation of Molière's ' George Dandin , ' and she says : " I had seen it once ; and I believe there were few in town had seen it so seldom , for it used to be a favorite ...
... known as the ' Amorous Widow , ' by Betterton , a sort of free translation of Molière's ' George Dandin , ' and she says : " I had seen it once ; and I believe there were few in town had seen it so seldom , for it used to be a favorite ...
Pagina 47
... known lines- " Immodest words admit of no defence , For want of decency is want of sense . " But the aphorism is not true in itself , and it was long after Addison before indecency of conduct , and inde- cency of talk , even before ...
... known lines- " Immodest words admit of no defence , For want of decency is want of sense . " But the aphorism is not true in itself , and it was long after Addison before indecency of conduct , and inde- cency of talk , even before ...
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Pagina 327 - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. 'My dear Mr. Bennet,' said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?
Pagina 196 - Mrs., or rather Miss Manley, for she was never married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Pagina 73 - I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's. In short, wherever I see a cluster of people, I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club.
Pagina 217 - For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Pagina 302 - A fig for the silver rims,' cried my wife, in a passion : 'I dare swear they won't sell for above half the money at the rate of broken silver, five shillings an ounce.'— 'You need be under no uneasiness,' cried I, 'about selling the rims; for they are not worth six-pence, for I perceive they are only copper varnished over.
Pagina 108 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Pagina 327 - I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
Pagina 122 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side ; and every now and then...
Pagina 23 - Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, now and for ever. Amen.
Pagina 123 - ... upon, to his chaplain, because he thought he would be kind to him, and has left you all his books. He has, moreover, bequeathed to the chaplain a very pretty tenement with good lands about it. It being a very cold day when he made his will, he left for mourning, to every man in the parish, a great frieze coat, and to every woman a black ridinghood.