The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century: In Illustration of the Manners and Morals of the AgeD. Appleton, 1871 - 339 pagina's |
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Pagina 51
... less ceremony , but they are certainly treated with more respect . In our houses , our furni- ture , and our sanitary arrangements , there is far more comfort and attention to cleanliness and health . * " It is not necessary to go back ...
... less ceremony , but they are certainly treated with more respect . In our houses , our furni- ture , and our sanitary arrangements , there is far more comfort and attention to cleanliness and health . * " It is not necessary to go back ...
Pagina 52
... less that the minds of the men of former generations were unfeeling or corrupt , because they tolerated things which we should now regard with pity or dis- gust . We must cautiously discriminate between the outward act and the inward ...
... less that the minds of the men of former generations were unfeeling or corrupt , because they tolerated things which we should now regard with pity or dis- gust . We must cautiously discriminate between the outward act and the inward ...
Pagina 57
... less imaginary than the creations of fiction in our own day , and have a substratum of reality which is wanting in many of the amusing characters of Dick- ens . But , at all events , we may EVIDENCE OF STATE OF SOCIETY . 57.
... less imaginary than the creations of fiction in our own day , and have a substratum of reality which is wanting in many of the amusing characters of Dick- ens . But , at all events , we may EVIDENCE OF STATE OF SOCIETY . 57.
Pagina 58
... less susceptible and their modesty less sensitive than now . In Lockhart's ' Life of Scott ' * there is an instructive anecdote told by Sir Walter , which remarkably illus trates this change in the public taste . A grand - aunt * Vol ...
... less susceptible and their modesty less sensitive than now . In Lockhart's ' Life of Scott ' * there is an instructive anecdote told by Sir Walter , which remarkably illus trates this change in the public taste . A grand - aunt * Vol ...
Pagina 70
... less chosen it would have been a most insufferable crowd . We amounted in common arithmetic to forty - four souls ; but as one lady was near her time , and as the number is fashionable , we counted forty - five . ” * At the beginning of ...
... less chosen it would have been a most insufferable crowd . We amounted in common arithmetic to forty - four souls ; but as one lady was near her time , and as the number is fashionable , we counted forty - five . ” * At the beginning of ...
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Pagina 327 - 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 196 - 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 73 - 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 217 - For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Pagina 302 - A fig for the silver rims,' cried my wife, in a passion : 'I dare swear they won't 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 six-pence, for I perceive they are only copper varnished over.
Pagina 108 - 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 327 - I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
Pagina 122 - ... 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 23 - Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, now and for ever. Amen.
Pagina 123 - ... 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.