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
... tion , the writers unconsciously give us hints when they least intended it of the manners and customs of the time . We may turn with disgust from the insipid narrative and stupid dialogue ; but we get from both little traits of habits ...
... tion , the writers unconsciously give us hints when they least intended it of the manners and customs of the time . We may turn with disgust from the insipid narrative and stupid dialogue ; but we get from both little traits of habits ...
Pagina 31
... tion for the lady by eating very heartily of this ex- quisite impromptu . " For the difference between the past and present century in the mode of regarding the passion of love , two causes may be specially assigned . First , that the ...
... tion for the lady by eating very heartily of this ex- quisite impromptu . " For the difference between the past and present century in the mode of regarding the passion of love , two causes may be specially assigned . First , that the ...
Pagina 47
... tion in opinions and manners which is brought about by time , and the effect of which is so well described . by Mr. Lecky in his ' History of Rationalism . ' The strange thing , however , is - and it is a remarkable proof of the manners ...
... tion in opinions and manners which is brought about by time , and the effect of which is so well described . by Mr. Lecky in his ' History of Rationalism . ' The strange thing , however , is - and it is a remarkable proof of the manners ...
Pagina 61
... tion that the satirists of the last century used to mourn over the nakedness of the birds which had been robbed of their plumage to deck the heads of the ladies . When Lydia Medford , in ' Humphry Clinker , ' dress- es for an assembly ...
... tion that the satirists of the last century used to mourn over the nakedness of the birds which had been robbed of their plumage to deck the heads of the ladies . When Lydia Medford , in ' Humphry Clinker , ' dress- es for an assembly ...
Pagina 65
... tion in a light - colored coat , red waistcoat and breeches , and a new bag wig . * * It was in the following guise that Commodore Trunnion , in ' Peregrine Pickle , ' one of Smollett's most amusing characters , was dressed on the ...
... tion in a light - colored coat , red waistcoat and breeches , and a new bag wig . * * It was in the following guise that Commodore Trunnion , in ' Peregrine Pickle , ' one of Smollett's most amusing characters , was dressed on the ...
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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 219 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
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 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 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 333 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Pagina 19 - Where then, ah! where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride?
Pagina 78 - We got into the best order we could and marched to our barge, with a boat of French horns attending and little Ashe singing. We paraded some time up the river and at last debarked at Vauxhall. There if we had so pleased we might have had the vivacity of our party increased by a quarrel, for a Mrs Loyd, who is supposed to be married to Lord Haddington, seeing the two girls following Lady C.
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.