The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century1871 |
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... whole doctrine is short and plain , and in itself inca- pable of any controversy , since God himself hath pronounced the fact , but wholly concealed the manner . And therefore many divines , who thought fit to answer those wicked books ...
... whole doctrine is short and plain , and in itself inca- pable of any controversy , since God himself hath pronounced the fact , but wholly concealed the manner . And therefore many divines , who thought fit to answer those wicked books ...
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... preservation of the species . But the style and mode of its expression differ as widely as it is possible to conceive . In the whole range of Greek and Ro- man literature I hardly know a passage where love is 24 NOVELS AND NOVELISTS .
... preservation of the species . But the style and mode of its expression differ as widely as it is possible to conceive . In the whole range of Greek and Ro- man literature I hardly know a passage where love is 24 NOVELS AND NOVELISTS .
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... whole , it is difficult to feel interest in them now , except so far as they tend to illustrate the condition of society at the time . What strikes one most is the frivolity of many of the subjects about which men of mark and genius ...
... whole , it is difficult to feel interest in them now , except so far as they tend to illustrate the condition of society at the time . What strikes one most is the frivolity of many of the subjects about which men of mark and genius ...
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... whole exercise of it to admiration : this well - managed officering of yours has , to my knowl- edge , been the ruin of above five young gentlemen , besides myself , and still goes on laying waste where- soever she comes , whereby the whole ...
... whole exercise of it to admiration : this well - managed officering of yours has , to my knowl- edge , been the ruin of above five young gentlemen , besides myself , and still goes on laying waste where- soever she comes , whereby the whole ...
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... whole court of judi- cature with a kind of silken rotunda , in its form not unlike the cupola of St. Paul's . " Counsel was heard in defence of the petticoat , and among other argu- ments they insinuated that its weight and unwieldi ...
... whole court of judi- cature with a kind of silken rotunda , in its form not unlike the cupola of St. Paul's . " Counsel was heard in defence of the petticoat , and among other argu- ments they insinuated that its weight and unwieldi ...
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Էջ 38 - 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?
Էջ 307 - 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?
Էջ 199 - 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.
Էջ 284 - 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 19 - Where then, ah! where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride?
Էջ 312 - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence.