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 6
... true value amongst the centuries of the world's history with reference to the great- ness of the men it produced , and the works they left behind them . Whatever may be thought of the average , it is impossible to deny that the age was ...
... true value amongst the centuries of the world's history with reference to the great- ness of the men it produced , and the works they left behind them . Whatever may be thought of the average , it is impossible to deny that the age was ...
Pagina 9
... true , that grossness and brutality were their 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 ...
... true , that grossness and brutality were their 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 ...
Pagina 15
... true faith in every article and mystery of our religion , so as to dispose us to do what is pleasing in His sight : and this we pray through Jesus Christ , to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory , now , and ...
... true faith in every article and mystery of our religion , so as to dispose us to do what is pleasing in His sight : and this we pray through Jesus Christ , to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory , now , and ...
Pagina 27
... true , in a series of letters between parties whose names would perhaps be men- tioned were they less known or less lamented . ' This purported to be the correspondence between Miss Ray , the mistress of Lord Sandwich , and the Rev. Mr ...
... true , in a series of letters between parties whose names would perhaps be men- tioned were they less known or less lamented . ' This purported to be the correspondence between Miss Ray , the mistress of Lord Sandwich , and the Rev. Mr ...
Pagina 28
... true that their heads are covered with bonnets , but the very idea of being seen in such a situation by whoever pleases to look is indelicate . " But we can correct this impression from the account given of the same scene by another ...
... true that their heads are covered with bonnets , but the very idea of being seen in such a situation by whoever pleases to look is indelicate . " But we can correct this impression from the account given of the same scene by another ...
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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.