Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Volume 1Hurst and Blackett, 1858 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acquaintance admiration amongst Aphara appeared Atalantis authoress beauty Beckford Burney called character Charles child court daughter dear death delight died England English eyes father favour fiction Fielding Fielding's fortune Francesco genius gentleman girl Godwin Goldsmith heart Holcroft honour Horace Walpole humour husband Isabel Johnson Jonathan Wild lady letters literary literature lived London Lord Madame d'Arblay married Mary means Memoirs mind Miss moral mother nature never noble novel Old English Baron Oliver Goldsmith Oroonoko passion political poor published Queen reader respect Richardson Rivella Robert Bage Robert Greene Sir Walter Scott sisters Smollett society Sterne story taste thee thou thought tion Tom Jones took Tristram Shandy Vathek virtues wife William Beckford William Godwin woman women write wrote young
Popular passages
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...
Page 186 - 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 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.
Page 71 - he is a middle.sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion, and dark-brown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Page 215 - I'll not hurt thee, says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand, - I'll not hurt a hair of thy head: - Go...
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 197 - I want to know you, Mr. Sterne, but it is fit you also should know who it is that wishes this pleasure. You have heard of an old Lord Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung...
Page 274 - Had the story been kept within the utmost verge of probability, the effect had been preserved, without losing the least circumstance that excites or detains the attention.
Page 4 - And yet ten Morte Arthures do not the tenth part so much harme as one of these bookes made in Italie and translated in England.
Page 198 - Bramin's portrait over thy writing-desk, and will consult it in all doubts and difficulties? — grateful and good girl! Yorick smiles contentedly over all thou dost : his picture does not do justice to his own complacency. I am glad your shipmates are friendly beings...