The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 30,Deel 1F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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Pagina ii
... told of his exploits ; and many acts of boyish mischief and frolic recorded in Ro- derick Random are supposed to be supplied from the memory of his own early years . From Dumbarton he was removed to Glasgow , where he was apprenticed to ...
... told of his exploits ; and many acts of boyish mischief and frolic recorded in Ro- derick Random are supposed to be supplied from the memory of his own early years . From Dumbarton he was removed to Glasgow , where he was apprenticed to ...
Pagina iv
... told him , in any case but his own , were little interesting to any but the disappointed author . In poetry the talents of Smollet were more respectable ; he is the author of several pretty and elegant pieces , some of which , as The ...
... told him , in any case but his own , were little interesting to any but the disappointed author . In poetry the talents of Smollet were more respectable ; he is the author of several pretty and elegant pieces , some of which , as The ...
Pagina ix
... told , and a man must have strong nerves to read it without shuddering . There is less of humour in this than in his two former works ; but the story of the sharper who intro- duces himself to a gaming - table as a boisterous , ignorant ...
... told , and a man must have strong nerves to read it without shuddering . There is less of humour in this than in his two former works ; but the story of the sharper who intro- duces himself to a gaming - table as a boisterous , ignorant ...
Pagina xi
... told him , that he deemed it incumbent upon him to make a public atonement in a work of truth , for wrongs done him in a work of fiction . Smollet , having decidedly taken his political party , was engaged to write in defence of the ...
... told him , that he deemed it incumbent upon him to make a public atonement in a work of truth , for wrongs done him in a work of fiction . Smollet , having decidedly taken his political party , was engaged to write in defence of the ...
Pagina 7
... told you over and over , how hard I am to move ; and at this time of day , I ought to know something of my own constitution . Why will you be so positive ? Prithee send me another prescription -- I am as lame and as much tortured in all ...
... told you over and over , how hard I am to move ; and at this time of day , I ought to know something of my own constitution . Why will you be so positive ? Prithee send me another prescription -- I am as lame and as much tortured in all ...
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Pagina iv - While the warm blood bedews my veins, And unimpair'd remembrance reigns, Resentment of my country's fate Within my filial breast shall beat ; And, spite of her insulting foe, My sympathizing verse shall flow : " Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn " Thy banish'd peace, thy laurels torn.
Pagina xiii - The learned SMELFUNGUS travelled from Boulogne to Paris from Paris to Rome and so on but he set out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he pass'd by was discoloured or distorted He wrote an account of them, but 'twas nothing but the account of his miserable feelings.
Pagina 183 - Psalmonazar,* after having drudged half a century in the literary mill, in all the simplicity and abstinence of an Asiatic, subsists upon the charity of a few booksellers, just sufficient to keep him from the parish.
Pagina 112 - He was accordingly summoned, and made his appearance, which was equally queer and pathetic. He seemed to be about twenty years of age, of a middling size, with bandy legs, stooping shoulders, high forehead, sandy locks, p'inking eyes, flat nose, and long chin ; but his complexion was of a sickly yellow : his looks denoted famine : and the rags that he wore could hardly conceal what decency requires to be covered.
Pagina 170 - He carried me to dine with S ,* whom you and I have long known by his writings. He lives in the skirts of the town, and every Sunday his house is open to all unfortunate brothers of the quill, whom he treats with beef, pudding, and potatoes, port, punch, and Calvert's entire butt beer.
Pagina 121 - He has his townhouse, and his country-house, his coach, and his postchaise. His wife and daughters appear in the richest stuffs, bespangled with diamonds. They frequent the court, the opera, the theatre, and the masquerade. They hold assemblies at their own houses : they make sumptuous entertainments, and treat with the richest wines of Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Champagne.
Pagina 153 - Carteret fell; and the reign of the Pelhams commenced. It was Carteret's misfortune to be raised to power when the public mind was still smarting from recent disappointment. The nation had been duped, and was eager for revenge. A victim was necessary, and on such occasions the victims...
Pagina 189 - An admonition of the devil,' cried the squire, in a passion. ' What admonition, you blockhead ? What right has such a fellow as you to set up for a reformer!
Pagina 171 - I was civilly received, in a plain yet decent habitation, which opened backwards into a very pleasant garden, kept in excellent order ; and, indeed, I saw none of the outward signs of authorship, either in the house or the landlord, who is one of those few writers of the age that stand upon their own foundation, without patronage, and above dependence.
Pagina 68 - Those follies that move my uncle's spleen excite my laughter. He is as tender as a man without a skin, who cannot bear the slightest touch without flinching. What tickles another, would give him torment ; and yet he has what we may call lucid intervals, when he is remarkably facetious. Indeed, I never knew a hypochondriac so apt to be infected with good humour.