The miscellaneous works of Tobias Smollett, with a life of the author, Volume 11 |
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Pagina v
... things are so uncertain - writing is all a lottery - I have been a looser by the works of the greatest men of the age . I could mention particulars , and name names ; but don't choose it . The taste of the town is so change- able . Then ...
... things are so uncertain - writing is all a lottery - I have been a looser by the works of the greatest men of the age . I could mention particulars , and name names ; but don't choose it . The taste of the town is so change- able . Then ...
Pagina ix
... thing- and other such prudential insinuations that are of- ten more disconcerting than the displayed objections of a declared antagonist ; because they seem to import something of great weight , which personal respect endeavours to ...
... thing- and other such prudential insinuations that are of- ten more disconcerting than the displayed objections of a declared antagonist ; because they seem to import something of great weight , which personal respect endeavours to ...
Pagina ix
... thing conspired to promote his suit , and my wonder is not that he succeeded , but that you held out so long . Your sentiments with regard to those who have inveighed against your performance , are altogether conformable to that good ...
... thing conspired to promote his suit , and my wonder is not that he succeeded , but that you held out so long . Your sentiments with regard to those who have inveighed against your performance , are altogether conformable to that good ...
Pagina 7
... thing that should make him miserable and desperate . As for familiarities , I do declare , I never once allowed him the favour of a salute ; and as to the few letters that passed between us , they are all in my uncle's hands , and I ...
... thing that should make him miserable and desperate . As for familiarities , I do declare , I never once allowed him the favour of a salute ; and as to the few letters that passed between us , they are all in my uncle's hands , and I ...
Pagina 16
... thing in this heart , which I have not yet disclosed- I flattered myself - but , I will not , I must not pro- ceed - dear miss Liddy ! for heaven's sake contrive if possible , some means of letting me speak to you before you leave ...
... thing in this heart , which I have not yet disclosed- I flattered myself - but , I will not , I must not pro- ceed - dear miss Liddy ! for heaven's sake contrive if possible , some means of letting me speak to you before you leave ...
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Pagina 339 - ... which is certainly owing to the verdant islands that seem to float upon its surface, affording the most enchanting objects of repose to the excursive view. Nor are the banks destitute of beauties, which even partake of the sublime. On this side they display a sweet variety of woodland...
Pagina 340 - Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents stain thy limpid source ; No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white, round...
Pagina 168 - A fourth had contracted such an antipathy to the country, that he insisted upon sitting with his back towards the window that looked into the garden, and when a dish of cauliflower was set upon the table, he snuffed up volatile salts to keep him from fainting; yet this delicate person was the son of a cottager, born under a hedge, and had many years run wild among asses on a common.
Pagina 49 - Right under the pump-room windows is the King's bath ; a huge cistern, where you see the> patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen, with chip hats, in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from their faces : but, truly, whether it is owing to the steam that surrounds them, or the heat of the water, or the nature of the dress, or all these causes together, they look so flushed, and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another...
Pagina 115 - It must be allowed, indeed, for the credit of the present age, that London and Westminster are much better paved and lighted than they were formerly. The new streets are spacious, regular, and airy ; and the houses generally convenient. The bridge at Blackfriars is a noble monument of taste and public spirit. I wonder how they stumbled upon a work of such magnificence and utility.
Pagina 170 - ... the bounds of decorum, he was effectually checked by the master of the feast, who exerted a sort of paternal authority over this irritable tribe. " The most learned philosopher of the whole collection, who had been expelled the university for atheism, has made great progress in a refutation of Lord Bolingbroke's metaphysical works, which is said to be equally ingenious and orthodox : but, in the meantime...
Pagina 167 - What struck me were oddities originally produced by affectation, and afterwards confirmed by habit. One of them wore spectacles at dinner, and another, his hat flapped; though (as Ivy told me) the first was noted for having a seaman's eye, when a bailiff was in the wind; and the other was never known to labour under any weakness or defect of vision, except about five years ago, when he was complimented with a couple of black eyes by a player, with whom he had quarrelled in his drink. A third wore...
Pagina 170 - ... journeymen to more creditable authors, for whom they translated, collated, and compiled, in the business of bookmaking ; and that all of them had, at different times, laboured in the service of our landlord, though they had now set up for themselves in various departments of literature. Not only their talents, but also their nations and dialects were so various, that our conversation resembled the confusion of tongues at Babel.
Pagina 109 - Hark ye, Clinker, you are a most notorious offender. You stand convicted of sickness, hunger, wretchedness, and want. But, as it does not belong to me to punish criminals, I will only take...
Pagina 111 - Bramble did not know whether to chide or laugh at this declaration. He foresaw much contradiction on the side of Tabby ; and, on the other hand, he could not but be pleased with the gratitude of Clinker, as well as with the simplicity of his character. ' Suppose I was inclined to take you into my service...