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 23
... whole doctrine is short and plain , and in itself inca- pable of any controversy , since God himself hath pronounced the fact , but wholly concealed the manner . And therefore many divines , who thought fit to answer those wicked books ...
... whole doctrine is short and plain , and in itself inca- pable of any controversy , since God himself hath pronounced the fact , but wholly concealed the manner . And therefore many divines , who thought fit to answer those wicked books ...
Pagina 24
... preservation of the species . But the style and mode of its expression differ as widely as it is possible to conceive . In the whole range of Greek and Ro- man literature I hardly know a passage where love is 24 NOVELS AND NOVELISTS .
... preservation of the species . But the style and mode of its expression differ as widely as it is possible to conceive . In the whole range of Greek and Ro- man literature I hardly know a passage where love is 24 NOVELS AND NOVELISTS .
Pagina 44
... whole , it is difficult to feel interest in them now , except so far as they tend to illustrate the condition of society at the time . What strikes one most is the frivolity of many of the subjects about which men of mark and genius ...
... whole , it is difficult to feel interest in them now , except so far as they tend to illustrate the condition of society at the time . What strikes one most is the frivolity of many of the subjects about which men of mark and genius ...
Pagina 45
... whole exercise of it to admiration : this well - managed officering of yours has , to my knowl- edge , been the ruin of above five young gentlemen , besides myself , and still goes on laying waste where- soever she comes , whereby the whole ...
... whole exercise of it to admiration : this well - managed officering of yours has , to my knowl- edge , been the ruin of above five young gentlemen , besides myself , and still goes on laying waste where- soever she comes , whereby the whole ...
Pagina 62
... whole court of judi- cature with a kind of silken rotunda , in its form not unlike the cupola of St. Paul's . " Counsel was heard in defence of the petticoat , and among other argu- ments they insinuated that its weight and unwieldi ...
... whole court of judi- cature with a kind of silken rotunda , in its form not unlike the cupola of St. Paul's . " Counsel was heard in defence of the petticoat , and among other argu- ments they insinuated that its weight and unwieldi ...
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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.