 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial, and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria. That these sentiments are just, or at least natural, I am the more inclined to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...may disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial, and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria. That these sentiments are just, or at least natural, I am the more inclined to... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...may disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial, and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria. That these sentiments are just, or at least natural, I am the more inclined to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Historians - 1839 - 496 pages
...may disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial, and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria. That these sentiments are just, or at least natural, I am the more inclined to... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 838 pages
...disdain their brcthren in England, but the romance of Tum Jones • that exquisite picture of humour and manners — will outlive the palace of the Escurial, and the imperial eagle of Austria." T Tom Junes has bcen translated into most, if not all, the languages of Europe. Curiously * Coleridge's... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1845 - 578 pages
...disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of' Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human e the best. That, perhaps, the sweetness of the evening had enticed the cap Austria."—Gibbon'i Miscellaneous WorTa. Besides one brother, Edmund, who became an officer of marines,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1848 - 1048 pages
...may disdain their brethren of England, but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial, and the imperial eagle of Austria. GIBBON. Johnson appears to have been particularly pleased with the character of the heroine of this... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 pages
...disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of ' Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of Austria." The field of prose fiction, so vigorously and productively cropped by Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1914 - 668 pages
...disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance ol ' Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria." Now if anything that is future and uncertain can yet be deemed imminent and certain, we may be assured... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1851 - 412 pages
...may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of Austria." This confident prophecy seems in the present year to be in the course of fulfilment. Fielding received... | |
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The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria. 
