Novels and Novelists from Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1Hurst and Blackett, 1858 |
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... obtained no less a sum than £ 700 for a play . A great literary authority has said that the memory of Southerne should be held sacred , because he was the first English writer who used his pen to expose the injustice and iniquity of the ...
... obtained no less a sum than £ 700 for a play . A great literary authority has said that the memory of Southerne should be held sacred , because he was the first English writer who used his pen to expose the injustice and iniquity of the ...
Էջ 93
... obtained a connec- tion with the journals , and dashed off articles of satiric vehemence . He had no especial power for dramatic writing , it would appear that he was scarcely ambitious of success ; he applied himself to it because it ...
... obtained a connec- tion with the journals , and dashed off articles of satiric vehemence . He had no especial power for dramatic writing , it would appear that he was scarcely ambitious of success ; he applied himself to it because it ...
Էջ 99
... obtain a more permanent hold upon the public favour . " With his wife , to whom he was ever passionately devoted , and those dear babes he trusted soon to have , he would lead a simple and a worthy life ; but un- fortunately he did not ...
... obtain a more permanent hold upon the public favour . " With his wife , to whom he was ever passionately devoted , and those dear babes he trusted soon to have , he would lead a simple and a worthy life ; but un- fortunately he did not ...
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... obtain of Fielding's being in want of money . That gentleman of letters informs us that two friends of his , Rigby and Peter Bathurst , bursting into Fielding's apartment , in opposition to the servant's request , found the author of ...
... obtain of Fielding's being in want of money . That gentleman of letters informs us that two friends of his , Rigby and Peter Bathurst , bursting into Fielding's apartment , in opposition to the servant's request , found the author of ...
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... obtain . Lady M. W. Montague informs us " the doors of the great were never opened to him ; " and that meant much more in her ladyship's time than in our own . He was painfully oppressed with a sense of himself ; always uneasy when ...
... obtain . Lady M. W. Montague informs us " the doors of the great were never opened to him ; " and that meant much more in her ladyship's time than in our own . He was painfully oppressed with a sense of himself ; always uneasy when ...
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Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 2 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
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Էջ 81 - A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, the next Day after her Death, to one Mrs Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September 1705...
Էջ 62 - But, during the latter part of the seventeenth century, the culture of the female mind seems to have been almost entirely neglected. If a damsel had the least smattering of literature, she was regarded as a prodigy. Ladies highly born, highly bred, and naturally...
Էջ 154 - Thy towering spirit now is broke, Thy neck is bended to the yoke. What foreign arms could never quell, By civil rage and rancour fell. The rural pipe and merry lay No more shall cheer the happy day : No social scenes of gay delight Beguile the dreary winter night : No strains, but those of sorrow flow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe, While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain.
Էջ 215 - I'll not hurt a hair of thy head: Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and...
Էջ 199 - Talking of widows — pray, Eliza, if ever you are such, do not think of giving yourself to some wealthy Nabob, because I design to marry you myself. My wife cannot live long, and I know not the woman I should like so well for her substitute as yourself. 'Tis true I am ninety-five in constitution, and you but twenty-five ; but what I want in youth, I will make up in wit and good-humour.
Էջ 202 - I come off conqueror my spirits are fled 'tis a bad omen do not weep my dear Lady — your tears are too precious to shed for me bottle them up, and may the cork never be drawn. Dearest, kindest, gentlest, and best of women ! may health, peace, and happiness prove your handmaids. If I die, cherish the remembrance of me, and forget the follies which you so often condemn'd which my heart, not my head betray'd me into.
Էջ 139 - Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?" JOHNSON : " Why, Sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all 'Tom Jones.' I, indeed, never read 'Joseph Andrews.
Էջ 9 - How am I crost, or whence is this curse ? Even from hence, the men that should employ such as I am, are enamoured of their own wits...
Էջ 47 - Hill; it stood on a vast rock of white marble, at the foot of which the river ran a vast depth down, and not to be descended on that side; the little waves still dashing and washing the foot of this rock, made the softest murmurs and purlings in the world...
Էջ 71 - He is a middle-sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion and darkbrown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...