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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Pagina iv
... characters of some of the most interesting and once widely popular novels , which for various reasons remain practically unknown to the great mass of readers of the present day , and especially to the female part of them . To do this ...
... characters of some of the most interesting and once widely popular novels , which for various reasons remain practically unknown to the great mass of readers of the present day , and especially to the female part of them . To do this ...
Pagina viii
... CHARACTER OF LATER NOVELS AND ROMANCES . - MACKENZIE.- ' THE MAN OF FEELING , ' ' THE MAN OF THE WORLD , ' AND ' JULIA DE ROUBIGNÉ .'- MISS BURNEY .- ' EVELINA , ' AND ' CECILIA . ' -MISS EDGEWORTH . ' BELINDA .'— JANE AUSTEN . - USES ...
... CHARACTER OF LATER NOVELS AND ROMANCES . - MACKENZIE.- ' THE MAN OF FEELING , ' ' THE MAN OF THE WORLD , ' AND ' JULIA DE ROUBIGNÉ .'- MISS BURNEY .- ' EVELINA , ' AND ' CECILIA . ' -MISS EDGEWORTH . ' BELINDA .'— JANE AUSTEN . - USES ...
Pagina 2
... character of a people . As one of our greatest novelists has said , " Out of the fictitious book I get the ex- pression of the life , of the times , of the manners , of the merriment , of the dress , the pleasures , the laughter , the ...
... character of a people . As one of our greatest novelists has said , " Out of the fictitious book I get the ex- pression of the life , of the times , of the manners , of the merriment , of the dress , the pleasures , the laughter , the ...
Pagina 8
... characters of blood . To commit a murder , or pick a pocket , or cut down a young apple tree , was punished by the same penalty , and that penalty was - death . The lower classes led the existence of animals and were brutal even in ...
... characters of blood . To commit a murder , or pick a pocket , or cut down a young apple tree , was punished by the same penalty , and that penalty was - death . The lower classes led the existence of animals and were brutal even in ...
Pagina 9
... character- istics , and beyond all doubt their condition was very lamentable . * There was great truth in what a Justice of the Peace is made to say in Fielding's ' Amelia : ' - “ And to speak my opinion plainly , such are the laws ...
... character- istics , and beyond all doubt their condition was very lamentable . * There was great truth in what a Justice of the Peace is made to say in Fielding's ' Amelia : ' - “ And to speak my opinion plainly , such are the laws ...
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The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century, in Illustration of the ... William Forsyth Volledige weergave - 1871 |
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Populaire passages
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.