 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - 428 pages
...has given a true picture of himself and his first wife in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure excepted ; and I am...persuaded, several of the incidents he mentions are Teal matters of fact. I wonder he does not perceive Tom Jones and [;206] prettily characterises Fielding... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1906 - 580 pages
...has given a true picture of himself and his first wife, in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure excepted; and, I am...fact. I wonder he does not perceive Tom Jones and Mr. Booth are sorry scoundrels. All these sort of books have the same fault, which I cannot easily... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1907 - 208 pages
...has given a true picture of himself and his first wife, in the character of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure excepted; and I am persuaded...the incidents he mentions are real matters of fact." Richardson also, in one of his letters, writes, "Amelia, even to her noselessness, is again his first... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1907 - 240 pages
...to repeat that it is painted from Fielding's first wife, or to insist that, as Lady Mary was fully persuaded, " several of the incidents he mentions are real matters of fact." That famous scene where Amelia is spreading, for the recreant who is losing his money at the King's... | |
 | Joseph Rodgers - 1908 - 488 pages
...of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure excepted ; and I am persuaded, several ot the incidents he mentions are real matters of fact. I wonder he does not perceive Tom Jones and Mr. Booth are sorry scoundrels. . . . Fielding has really a fund of true humour, and was to be pitied... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth,1 some compliments to his own figure ex1 In Amelia. cepted; and I am persuaded several of the incidents he mentions...fact. I wonder he does not perceive Tom Jones and Mr. Booth are sorry scoundrels. All these sort of books have the same fault, which I cannot easily... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth,1 some compliments to his own figure ex1 In Amelia. cepted; and I am persuaded several of the incidents he mentions...fact. I wonder he does not perceive Tom Jones and Mr. Booth are sorry scoundrels. All these sort of books have the same fault, which I cannot easily... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth,1 some compliments to his own figure ex1 In Amelia. cepted; and I am persuaded several of the incidents he mentions...fact. I wonder he does not perceive Tom Jones and Mr. Booth are sorry scoundrels. All these sort of books have the same fault, which I cannot easily... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - 496 pages
...has given a true picture of himself and his first wife, in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure excepted; and, I am...fact. I wonder he does not perceive Tom Jones and Mr. Booth are sorry scoundrels." Lady Mary, who liked her cousin, hardly meant to call him a sorry... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - 502 pages
...has given a true picture of himself and his first wife, in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure excepted; and, I am...fact. I wonder he does not perceive Tom Jones and Mr. Booth are sorry scoundrels." Lady Mary, who liked her cousin, hardly meant to call him a sorry... | |
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H. Fielding has given a true picture of himself and his first wife in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure excepted ; and I am persuaded several of the incidents he mentions are real matters of fact. 
