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
... thought it necessary to adhere strictly and for- mally to this programme , and have therefore introduced sketches of the plots and characters of some of the most interesting and once widely popular novels , which for various reasons ...
... thought it necessary to adhere strictly and for- mally to this programme , and have therefore introduced sketches of the plots and characters of some of the most interesting and once widely popular novels , which for various reasons ...
Pagina 5
... thought and language of the age in which they were written , that the perusal of them even now is useful ; and we get from them a much more truthful idea of the state of society and morals than from pompous histories and laboured * Dr ...
... thought and language of the age in which they were written , that the perusal of them even now is useful ; and we get from them a much more truthful idea of the state of society and morals than from pompous histories and laboured * Dr ...
Pagina 6
... thought of the average , it is impossible to deny that the age was the parent of some of the most illustrious names of which England can boast . The general face of the sky might be dark , but there were stars in the firmament that ...
... thought of the average , it is impossible to deny that the age was the parent of some of the most illustrious names of which England can boast . The general face of the sky might be dark , but there were stars in the firmament that ...
Pagina 7
... thought , it is , I think , impossible to deny that the bygone cen- tury is not an attractive period . There was ... thoughts of statesmen , and excited no interest in the people . The miracles of change which have been wrought by Steam ...
... thought , it is , I think , impossible to deny that the bygone cen- tury is not an attractive period . There was ... thoughts of statesmen , and excited no interest in the people . The miracles of change which have been wrought by Steam ...
Pagina 13
... thought now but little more than a decent compliance with religious wor- ship , such as attendance at the Sacrament and family prayers , was in the last century con- sidered the badge of a Puritan and a Methodist . " Nothing is so sad ...
... thought now but little more than a decent compliance with religious wor- ship , such as attendance at the Sacrament and family prayers , was in the last century con- sidered the badge of a Puritan and a Methodist . " Nothing is so sad ...
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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.