Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Volume 1Hurst and Blackett, 1858 - Authors, English |
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... amongst the lowest rank of the people . " As the chief merit of the old romance had been found in the incredibility of its incidents and the wildness of its plot , so the novel charmed by ad- hering to the simple , and sometimes stern ...
... amongst the lowest rank of the people . " As the chief merit of the old romance had been found in the incredibility of its incidents and the wildness of its plot , so the novel charmed by ad- hering to the simple , and sometimes stern ...
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... amongst many sorrowing thoughts , there is such confusion , that superfluitie of griefes stops the source of my miscon- tent . To figure out my follies , or the extremity of my fancies , were but to manifest the bad course of my life ...
... amongst many sorrowing thoughts , there is such confusion , that superfluitie of griefes stops the source of my miscon- tent . To figure out my follies , or the extremity of my fancies , were but to manifest the bad course of my life ...
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... amongst those who earned a new respect for their sex . There was a great run on the part of the ladies on literature . Monachi literas nesciunt , et fæminæ libris indulgent ; -the clergy cannot read Latin , the ladies can talk it was ...
... amongst those who earned a new respect for their sex . There was a great run on the part of the ladies on literature . Monachi literas nesciunt , et fæminæ libris indulgent ; -the clergy cannot read Latin , the ladies can talk it was ...
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... amongst the nurse - maids , lest their rude love - making might speak unhandsome words in the pre- sence of her children . " As for tutors , although we had for all sorts of virtuosus , as singing , dancing , playing on musick , reading ...
... amongst the nurse - maids , lest their rude love - making might speak unhandsome words in the pre- sence of her children . " As for tutors , although we had for all sorts of virtuosus , as singing , dancing , playing on musick , reading ...
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... amongst our earliest novels of English manufacture . As a specimen , we transcribe " THE CONVERTS IN MARRIAGE . " There were four young gentlewomen whose fathers were near neighbours to each other , whereupon there grew up an ...
... amongst our earliest novels of English manufacture . As a specimen , we transcribe " THE CONVERTS IN MARRIAGE . " There were four young gentlewomen whose fathers were near neighbours to each other , whereupon there grew up an ...
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Page 135 - 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.
Page 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 ; which Apparition recommends the perusal of Drelincourfs Book of Consolation against the Fear of Death.
Page 149 - In the month of May, the Duke of Cumberland advanced with the army into the Highlands, as far as Fort Augustus, where he encamped ; and sent off detachments on all hands, to hunt down the fugitives, and lay waste the country with fire and sword.
Page 110 - His happy constitution (even when he had, with great pains, half demolished it) made him forget everything when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne; and I am persuaded he has known more happy moments than any prince upon earth.
Page 75 - I depended upon him, I trusted him, I gave up my two dear unprovided children into his hands ; but he has no compassion, and suffers them and their poor dying mother to beg their bread at his door, and to crave, as if it were an alms, what he is bound under hand and seal, besides the most sacred promises, to supply them with : himself, at the same time, living in a profusion of plenty. It is too much for me.
Page 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...
Page 195 - 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.
Page 182 - It having been observed that there was little hospitality in London ; JOHNSON. " Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited in London. The man, Sterne, I have been told, has had engagements for three months." GOLDSMITH.
Page 193 - You have heard, continued he, of an old Lord Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken so much: I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast ; but have survived them ; and, despairing ever to find their equals, it is some years since I have...
Page 135 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.