The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century1871 |
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... writers unconsciously give us hints when they least intended it of the manners and customs of the time . We may turn with disgust from the insipid narrative and stupid dialogue ; but we get from both little traits of habits and opinions ...
... writers unconsciously give us hints when they least intended it of the manners and customs of the time . We may turn with disgust from the insipid narrative and stupid dialogue ; but we get from both little traits of habits and opinions ...
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... different from that of our own day . This difference is shown in a thousand ways , by which the writers uncon- sciously betray the existence of habits and manners which have now ceased to exist . We find there 12 NOVELS AND NOVELISTS .
... different from that of our own day . This difference is shown in a thousand ways , by which the writers uncon- sciously betray the existence of habits and manners which have now ceased to exist . We find there 12 NOVELS AND NOVELISTS .
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... Advocates - are names of which any period might be proud , and they redeem the eighteenth cen- tury from the reproach which has been cast upon it by a distinguished but eccentric writer of the present day 14 NOVELS AND NOVELISTS .
... Advocates - are names of which any period might be proud , and they redeem the eighteenth cen- tury from the reproach which has been cast upon it by a distinguished but eccentric writer of the present day 14 NOVELS AND NOVELISTS .
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William Forsyth. by a distinguished but eccentric writer of the present day , who says that " it lies massed up in our minds as a disastrous wrecked inanity not useful to dwell upon : a kind of dusky , chaotic background , in which the ...
William Forsyth. by a distinguished but eccentric writer of the present day , who says that " it lies massed up in our minds as a disastrous wrecked inanity not useful to dwell upon : a kind of dusky , chaotic background , in which the ...
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... tipsy confusion they mis- took for the Devil . And yet they pretended not to believe in any devil at all ! A recent writer , who has attacked with unsparing . severity the faults which , until our own day , 16 NOVELS AND NOVELISTS .
... tipsy confusion they mis- took for the Devil . And yet they pretended not to believe in any devil at all ! A recent writer , who has attacked with unsparing . severity the faults which , until our own day , 16 NOVELS AND NOVELISTS .
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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.