The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century1871 |
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... history of the works of fiction of the last century , which would have required much more copious detail , but a view of the manners and morals of that century , as gathered principally from hints and descriptions in the novels of the ...
... history of the works of fiction of the last century , which would have required much more copious detail , but a view of the manners and morals of that century , as gathered principally from hints and descriptions in the novels of the ...
Pagina 11
... history . And yet it is as much a fiction as Waverley , with its picture of the Rebellion of 1745 . Without some such object in view , it would have been difficult to go through the task of reading what I have been obliged to read . For ...
... history . And yet it is as much a fiction as Waverley , with its picture of the Rebellion of 1745 . Without some such object in view , it would have been difficult to go through the task of reading what I have been obliged to read . For ...
Pagina 14
... history with reference to the greatness of the men it produced , and the works they left behind them . Whatever may be thought of the average , it is impos- sible to deny that the age was the parent of some of the most illustrious names ...
... history with reference to the greatness of the men it produced , and the works they left behind them . Whatever may be thought of the average , it is impos- sible to deny that the age was the parent of some of the most illustrious names ...
Pagina 17
... History of the Law of Evidence , ' by J. G. Phillimore , p . " The time when he ( Fielding ) wrote was remarkable for the low tone of manners and sentiment ; perhaps the lowest that ever prevailed in England ; for it was precisely a ...
... History of the Law of Evidence , ' by J. G. Phillimore , p . " The time when he ( Fielding ) wrote was remarkable for the low tone of manners and sentiment ; perhaps the lowest that ever prevailed in England ; for it was precisely a ...
Pagina 18
... History of the Poor Laws , published in 1764 , he says that " in practice the office of an overseer of the poor seems to be understood to be this . . . . to pull down cottages and to drive out as many inhabitants and admit as few as ...
... History of the Poor Laws , published in 1764 , he says that " in practice the office of an overseer of the poor seems to be understood to be this . . . . to pull down cottages and to drive out as many inhabitants and admit as few as ...
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Pagina 38 - Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be?
Pagina 307 - 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 199 - 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 284 - 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 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 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 19 - Where then, ah! where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride?
Pagina 312 - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence.