The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham AdamsCentury Company, 1902 - 320 páginas |
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... seemed such a dunce to Pope , and to Pope's friends , that the chief place in The Dunciad could be ac- corded to none but him . Now Theobald had questioned ( and worse ) Pope's scholarship ; but Colley had insisted that an un- sound ...
... seemed such a dunce to Pope , and to Pope's friends , that the chief place in The Dunciad could be ac- corded to none but him . Now Theobald had questioned ( and worse ) Pope's scholarship ; but Colley had insisted that an un- sound ...
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... seemed to threaten an un- lucky catastrophe , had it not been timely prevented by the return of the lovers ... BOOK III . CHAPTER I. Matter prefatory in praise of biography ............... . CHAPTER II , A night - scene , wherein ...
... seemed to threaten an un- lucky catastrophe , had it not been timely prevented by the return of the lovers ... BOOK III . CHAPTER I. Matter prefatory in praise of biography ............... . CHAPTER II , A night - scene , wherein ...
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... seemed impossible ; nor was there any great likelihood of obtaining it from him , for he had fastened it with a ribbon to his arm , and solemnly vowed that noth- ing but irresistible force should ever separate them ; in which resolution ...
... seemed impossible ; nor was there any great likelihood of obtaining it from him , for he had fastened it with a ribbon to his arm , and solemnly vowed that noth- ing but irresistible force should ever separate them ; in which resolution ...
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... seemed to have the greatest appetite for a piece of boiled beef and cabbage . " Adams was pleased with so perfect a confirmation that he had not the least fever , but advised him to a lighter diet for that evening . He accordingly ate ...
... seemed to have the greatest appetite for a piece of boiled beef and cabbage . " Adams was pleased with so perfect a confirmation that he had not the least fever , but advised him to a lighter diet for that evening . He accordingly ate ...
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... seemed to have vowed a state of perpetual chastity . She was long deaf to all the sufferings of her lovers , till one day , at a neighboring fair , the rhetoric of John the hostler , with a new straw hat and a pint of wine , made a ...
... seemed to have vowed a state of perpetual chastity . She was long deaf to all the sufferings of her lovers , till one day , at a neighboring fair , the rhetoric of John the hostler , with a new straw hat and a pint of wine , made a ...
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Abraham Adams acquainted Adams's answered Adams Aristotle Arthur Murphy asked assure Barnabas beau beauty began believe Bellarmine better Betty Booby's burlesque called cassock CHAPTER Cibber coach Colley Cibber creature cries Adams dear desired discourse Don Quixote doth East Stour endeavor eyes father fear Fielding Fielding's fortune gentleman give hand happened happiness hath heard heart Henry Fielding honor hope Horatio horse host husband imagine Jonathan Wild Joseph and Fanny Joseph Andrews justice justice of peace knew Lady Booby ladyship Leonora likewise lived madam married master mistress never Newnham Paddox obliged Pamela parish Parson Adams passion perceived perhaps poet poor present reader reason replied returned says Adams says Slipslop servants shilling soon sooner squire sure surgeon surprised tell thee thing thou thought tion told Tom Jones Tow-wouse travelling Trulliber utmost violent virtue whilst wife woman words wretch
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Página xxxiii - Silence, ye wolves ! while Ralph to Cynthia howls And makes night hideous — Answer him, ye owls ! " Sense, speech, and measure, living tongues and dead, Let all give way, and Morris may be read.
Página 24 - I have no intention to vilify or asperse any one ; for though everything is copied from the book of nature, and scarce a character or action produced which I have not taken from my own observations and experience ; yet I have used the utmost care to obscure the persons by such different circumstances, degrees, and colours, that it will be impossible to guess at them with any degree of certainty...
Página 351 - G — required her at your hands, I fear you would reluctantly part with her. Now, believe me, no Christian ought so to set his heart on any person or thing in this world, but that, whenever it shall be required or taken from him in any manner by Divine Providence, he may be able, peaceably, quietly, and contentedly to resign it" At which words one came hastily in, and acquainted Mr.
Página 48 - His hair was of a nut-brown colour, and was displayed in wanton ringlets down his back. His forehead was high, his eyes dark, and as full of sweetness as of fire. His nose a little inclined to the Roman. His teeth white and even. His lips full, red, and soft. His beard was only rough on his chin and upper lip ; but his cheeks, in which his blood glowed, were overspread with a thick down. His countenance had a tenderness joined with a sensibility inexpressible. Add to this the most perfect neatness...
Página 19 - ... all the pleasure we can this way convey to a sensible reader. And perhaps, there is one reason, why a comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life everywhere furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous. I have hinted this little, concerning burlesque; because I have often heard that name given to performances, which have been truly of the comic kind,...
Página 192 - I would have thee know, friend," addressing himself to Adams, "I shall not learn my duty from such as thee. I know what charity is, better than to give to vagabonds.
Página 58 - It is an observation sometimes made, that to indicate our idea of a simple fellow, we say, he is easily to be seen through: nor do I believe it a more improper denotation of a simple book. Instead of applying this to any particular performance, we chuse rather to remark the contrary in this history, where the scene opens itself by small degrees; and he is a sagacious reader who can see two chapters before him.
Página xliv - 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.
Página 351 - Joseph, who was overwhelmed with concern likewise, recovered himself sufficiently to endeavor to comfort the parson ; in which attempt he used many arguments that he had at several times remembered out of his own discourses, both in private and public (for he was a great enemy to the passions, and preached nothing more than the conquest of them by reason and grace), but he was not at leisure now to hearken to his advice. " Child, child," said he, " do not go about impossibilities.
Página 21 - What could exceed the absurdity of an author who should write the comedy of Nero, with the merry incident of ripping up his mother's belly ? or what would give a greater shock to humanity than an attempt to expose the miseries of poverty and distress to ridicule ? And yet the reader will not want much learning to suggest such instances to himself.