The history of Tom JonesCarey and Lea, 1832 |
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Page 77
... gamekeeper and a schoolmaster . As we determined , when we first sat down to write this history , to flatter no man , but to guide our pen throughout by the directions of truth , we are obliged to bring our hero on the stage in a much ...
... gamekeeper and a schoolmaster . As we determined , when we first sat down to write this history , to flatter no man , but to guide our pen throughout by the directions of truth , we are obliged to bring our hero on the stage in a much ...
Page 78
... gamekeeper ; when happening to spring a covey of partridges near the bor- der of that manor over which Fortune , to fulfil the wise purposes of Nature , had planted one of the game - consumers , the birds flew into it , and were marked ...
... gamekeeper ; when happening to spring a covey of partridges near the bor- der of that manor over which Fortune , to fulfil the wise purposes of Nature , had planted one of the game - consumers , the birds flew into it , and were marked ...
Page 79
... gamekeeper was now relieved from his anxiety , and Mr. Allworthy himself be- gan to be concerned at Tom's sufferings : for besides that Mr. Thwackum , being highly enraged that he was not able to make the boy say what he himself pleased ...
... gamekeeper was now relieved from his anxiety , and Mr. Allworthy himself be- gan to be concerned at Tom's sufferings : for besides that Mr. Thwackum , being highly enraged that he was not able to make the boy say what he himself pleased ...
Page 81
... gamekeeper was there . Nay , he said , -yes , you did , - deny it if you can , that you would not have confessed the truth , though master had cut you to pieces . ' At this the fire flashed from Thwack- um's eyes , and he cried out in ...
... gamekeeper was there . Nay , he said , -yes , you did , - deny it if you can , that you would not have confessed the truth , though master had cut you to pieces . ' At this the fire flashed from Thwack- um's eyes , and he cried out in ...
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... gamekeeper , about a year after he guineas , with which he bid her clothe her was dismissed from Mr. Allworthy's service , children . The poor woman burst into tears and before Tom's selling the horse , being at this goodness , and ...
... gamekeeper , about a year after he guineas , with which he bid her clothe her was dismissed from Mr. Allworthy's service , children . The poor woman burst into tears and before Tom's selling the horse , being at this goodness , and ...
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Page 371 - ... you called it, between him and his mother, where you told me he acted so fine, why, Lord help me, any man, that is, any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same. I know you are only joking with me ; but indeed, madam, though I was never at a play in London, yet I have seen acting before in the country ; and the king for my money; he speaks all his words distinctly, half as loud again as the other. — Anybody may see he is an actor.
Page 370 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Page 224 - Nor will all the qualities I have hitherto given my historian avail him, unless he have what is generally meant by a good heart, and be capable of feeling. The author who will make me weep, says Horace, must first weep himself.
Page 20 - The whispering zephyr and the purling rill? Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?
Page 46 - IN that part of the western division of this kingdom, which is commonly called Somersetshire, there lately lived (and perhaps lives still) a gentleman, whose name was Allworthy, and who might well be called the favourite of both nature and fortune ; for both of these seem to have contended which should bless and enrich him most.
Page 300 - Milton, sweetly tuning the heroic lyre ; fill my ravished fancy with the hopes of charming ages yet to come. Foretel me that some tender maid, whose grandmother is yet unborn, hereafter, when, under the fictitious name of Sophia, she reads the real worth which once existed in my Charlotte, shall from her sympathetic breast send forth the heaving sigh.
Page 62 - Jurisdiction whatever: For as I am, in reality, the Founder of a new Province of Writing, so I am at liberty to make what Laws I please therein.
Page 249 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Page 6 - He had the advantage both in learning and, in my opinion, genius: they both agreed in wanting money in spite of all their friends, and would have wanted it, if their hereditary lands had been as extensive as their imagination; yet each of them [was] so formed for happiness, it is pity he was not immortal.
Page 223 - So necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges, and among books ; for however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learnt only in the world.