The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century: In Illustration of the Manners and Morals of the AgeJ. Murray, 1871 - 347 pagina's |
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... the state of society in the period . Paradoxical as it may seem , there can be no doubt that fiction is often more truth- 6 * Thackeray , English Humourists , ' p . 113 . The ful than fact . By this I mean that a 2 Novels and Novelists .
... the state of society in the period . Paradoxical as it may seem , there can be no doubt that fiction is often more truth- 6 * Thackeray , English Humourists , ' p . 113 . The ful than fact . By this I mean that a 2 Novels and Novelists .
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... English gentleman- all of the olden time . " There is , indeed , no source from which so much information may be gleaned with respect to the social life of our ancestors as the Novels , supplemented by Diaries and Letters , such as ...
... English gentleman- all of the olden time . " There is , indeed , no source from which so much information may be gleaned with respect to the social life of our ancestors as the Novels , supplemented by Diaries and Letters , such as ...
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... English jurisprudence , * says of the period , " The upper classes were corrupt , without refinement ; the middle , gross without good humour ; and the lower , brutal without honesty . " I do not think it is fair to say that the middle ...
... English jurisprudence , * says of the period , " The upper classes were corrupt , without refinement ; the middle , gross without good humour ; and the lower , brutal without honesty . " I do not think it is fair to say that the middle ...
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... refinement was introduced . " -Shaw's ' History of English Literature , ' p . 343 . * Quoted in Pashley's ' Pauperism and the Poor Laws , ' p . 252 . Burn's History of the Poor Laws , published in 1764 IO Novels and Novelists .
... refinement was introduced . " -Shaw's ' History of English Literature , ' p . 343 . * Quoted in Pashley's ' Pauperism and the Poor Laws , ' p . 252 . Burn's History of the Poor Laws , published in 1764 IO Novels and Novelists .
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... English ladies , it would be very difficult to resist the inference that de- licacy and purity amongst us had sunk to a very low ebb . And when we look at the plays which were acted at the theatres during the last century we are filled ...
... English ladies , it would be very difficult to resist the inference that de- licacy and purity amongst us had sunk to a very low ebb . And when we look at the plays which were acted at the theatres during the last century we are filled ...
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Pagina 11 - Where then, ah! where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride?
Pagina 30 - 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 335 - 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 195 - Mrs., or rather Miss Manley, for she was never married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Pagina 68 - 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 15 - Saviour Jesus Christ; to whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, now and for ever. Amen.
Pagina 103 - 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 118 - ... 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 309 - A fig for the silver rims," cried my wife, in a passion ; "I dare swear they wont 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 sixpence, for I perceive they are only copper, varnished over." " What !" cried my wife, " not silver ! the rims not silver !" " No," cried I ; "no more silver than your saucepan.
Pagina 119 - ... 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.