The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, المجلد 32،الجزء 1F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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... night - cap , he would sleep , like the ancient heroes , in an iron hel- met , which adorned his hall ; till one night it un- fortunately fell off his head , and demolished his chamber - pot . Thus Mr. Wildgoose , in imitation of our ...
... night - cap , he would sleep , like the ancient heroes , in an iron hel- met , which adorned his hall ; till one night it un- fortunately fell off his head , and demolished his chamber - pot . Thus Mr. Wildgoose , in imitation of our ...
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... night , and nobody be ever the wiser . Why , Jerry , says Wildgoose , with some warmth , dost thou think me such an apostate ; what ! to turn back , as soon as I have put my hand to the plough ? No , Jerry , you may do as you please ...
... night , and nobody be ever the wiser . Why , Jerry , says Wildgoose , with some warmth , dost thou think me such an apostate ; what ! to turn back , as soon as I have put my hand to the plough ? No , Jerry , you may do as you please ...
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... night . He , there- fore , thanked the doctor for his great civility , and , attended by his trusty friend , accompanied him to the parsonage - house . As they were going out of the house , my land- lord's curiosity prompted him to ...
... night . He , there- fore , thanked the doctor for his great civility , and , attended by his trusty friend , accompanied him to the parsonage - house . As they were going out of the house , my land- lord's curiosity prompted him to ...
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... night than bury it ; and so , I suppose , they have deferred it till to - morrow . Why , replies Wildgoose , I believe the poor coun- try people are very troublesome upon these oc- casions ; but their ignorance is rather to be pitied ...
... night than bury it ; and so , I suppose , they have deferred it till to - morrow . Why , replies Wildgoose , I believe the poor coun- try people are very troublesome upon these oc- casions ; but their ignorance is rather to be pitied ...
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... night under his roof . He , therefore , bade Tugwell follow him , and making the best apology the circumstances would bear , to Mr. Pottle , for the trouble he had occasioned in his fa- mily , and , thanking him for his kind ...
... night under his roof . He , therefore , bade Tugwell follow him , and making the best apology the circumstances would bear , to Mr. Pottle , for the trouble he had occasioned in his fa- mily , and , thanking him for his kind ...
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الصفحة 59 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair ; thyself how wondrous then 1 Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
الصفحة 245 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
الصفحة 191 - For thither the tribes go up, even the tribes of the LORD : to testify unto Israel, to give thanks unto the Name of the LORD.
الصفحة 256 - Love's but the frailty of the mind When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires, And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
الصفحة 215 - ... to the foolish ambition of being seen in, what is called, good company. In short, nothing can be more trifling than the life of a Lady, nor more insipid than that of a Gentleman, at Bath : the one is a constant series of flirting and gadding about ; the other of sauntering from place to place, without any scheme or pursuit. Scandal or fashions engross the conversation of the former; the news of the day, the price of fish, the history of the preceding night at the tavern, or savoury anticipations...
الصفحة 72 - Wildgoose's consent, they went to one of the booths, and were refreshing themselves with the aforesaid potation, when the company began to divide; and proclamation was made, that a Holland shift, which was adorned with ribbands, and displayed on a pole, was going to be run for, and six young women began to exhibit themselves before the whole assembly, in a dress hardly reconcileable to the rules of decency.
الصفحة 167 - Thorn — or any romantic accounts of the Holy Land, and the like, he had thought it rather a dry discourse, and beginning to spit sixpences, as his saying was, he gave hints to Mr. Wildgoose to stop at the first public-house they should come to. But there was none till they came to Tetbury, where they went into a second-rate inn, for fear of meeting with the same insults which they had received at the Bell at Gloucester. CHAP. VII A Hurley-hurley in the modern Taste WILDGOOSE having been thoroughly...
الصفحة 199 - The greatest charity we can bestow on people of fashion, at a public place, is the furnishing them something new to talk of. A new singer, a new philosopher, a new rope-dancer, or a new preacher, are objects equally amusing to the idle and indolent that frequent Bath.
الصفحة 43 - ... vogue among the young people of the University. The Sunday evenings they appropriated to religious authors, which soon convinced 'them of the great neglect of practical religion in that place, as well as in other parts of the kingdom. In consequence of these convictions, they formed themselves into a society, and raised a small fund for charitable uses ; to relieve the necessitous, buy medicines for the sick, and to disperse books amongst the ignorant. They agreed also to go occasionally and...
الصفحة 8 - Nay, I am convinced that Don Quixote or Gil Bias, Clarissa or Sir Charles Grandison, will furnish more hints for correcting the follies and regulating the morals of young persons, and impress them more forcibly on their minds, than volumes of severe precepts seriously delivered and dogmatically enforced.