Henry ... By the author of Arundel [i.e. R. Cumberland].P. Wogan, 1795 |
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... mind ; I can pretend to nothing else , unless it be any recommendation to me that I can turn my hand to the diftilling of elder - flowers and mint - water , and in a com- mon way to the picking of fimples ; but of this I make little ...
... mind ; I can pretend to nothing else , unless it be any recommendation to me that I can turn my hand to the diftilling of elder - flowers and mint - water , and in a com- mon way to the picking of fimples ; but of this I make little ...
الصفحة 51
... mind your business , ply the mortar , and leave religion to thofe who get their living by it : you and I , my lad , have fomething else to think of . " you " I hope , " replied Henry , " I can mind my business without neglecting my ...
... mind your business , ply the mortar , and leave religion to thofe who get their living by it : you and I , my lad , have fomething else to think of . " you " I hope , " replied Henry , " I can mind my business without neglecting my ...
الصفحة 64
... mind for that ; I agree with the old fages , Hippocrates , and Galen , and Doctor Nicholas Culpepper , who , in his Laft Legacy bequeath'd to his dear Confort , Mrs. Alice Culpepper , for the Public Good , recommendeth to fuch as be fat ...
... mind for that ; I agree with the old fages , Hippocrates , and Galen , and Doctor Nicholas Culpepper , who , in his Laft Legacy bequeath'd to his dear Confort , Mrs. Alice Culpepper , for the Public Good , recommendeth to fuch as be fat ...
الصفحة 81
... " Regard it in no other fenfe , " the replied , " than as the frank confeffion of a woman , who is above the mean practice of difguifing what the feels , and E 5 whose whofe mind is made up to the conviction , that HENRY . 81.
... " Regard it in no other fenfe , " the replied , " than as the frank confeffion of a woman , who is above the mean practice of difguifing what the feels , and E 5 whose whofe mind is made up to the conviction , that HENRY . 81.
الصفحة 82
Richard Cumberland. whofe mind is made up to the conviction , that what nature dictates must be right . " " If that be your rule , Madam , " quoth Henry , you cannot be offended with me for adopt- ing it ; therefore , as my nature ...
Richard Cumberland. whofe mind is made up to the conviction , that what nature dictates must be right . " " If that be your rule , Madam , " quoth Henry , you cannot be offended with me for adopt- ing it ; therefore , as my nature ...
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affiftance againſt Alexander amongſt anſwer becauſe beſt beſtowed Blachford Bowfey Bridget buſineſs cafe caft Cawdle confcience cou'd courſe cried cried Alexander dame Doctor Doctor Zachary elſe eſcape eyes Ezekiel fafe faid fame favour fecond feemed fellow fenfe ferve fervice fhall fhort fhould fide fight filence firſt fome fomething foon fooner fpirit ftill fuch fuffer fuppofe fure give hand heart Henry's hero herſelf himſelf honour houſe intereft Jemima John Jenkins Juftice Kinloch Lady Crowbery laft lefs leſs mafter meaſures miſtreſs moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature never obferved occafion paffed paffion perfon pleaſe poor prefent prifoner puniſhment purpoſe queftion quoth reafon refolution replied Henry ſaid Sawney ſeemed ſhall ſhe ſhort ſmall ſtand ſtate ſtocks ſtrong Sufan tell thee thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thou tion underſtand Weevil whilft whofe wiſh words worſhip wou'd young yourſelf youth Zachary
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الصفحة 109 - If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause...
الصفحة 109 - So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
الصفحة 5 - ... to, and probability is not to be lost sight of; but it must be nature strongly featured, and probability closely bordering on the marvellous; the one must touch upon extravagance, and the other be highly seasoned with adventures — for who will thank us for a dull and lifeless journal of insipid facts? Now every peculiarity of humour in the human character is a strain upon nature, and every surprising incident is a degree of violence to probability. How far shall we go then for our reader's...
الصفحة 207 - ... virtuous characters in amiable lights, will let the good preponderate over the evil; he will not take his maxims from...
الصفحة 206 - ... story should be avoided; the adventures of the Man of the Hill, in The Foundling is an excrescence that offends against the grace and symmetry of the plot: whatever makes a pause in the main business, and keeps the chief characters too long out of sight, must be a defect.
الصفحة 179 - ... and void of offence, yet mark me, neighbours, I recommend it not, especially to the adult ; I say unto you, as the wise man saith, " Give " not your lips unto women, for in the lips " there is as it were a burning fire ; for ye "know that a whore is a deep ditch, and a " strange woman is a narrow pit.
الصفحة 2 - ... be it happy or unhappy, he may earn a plaudit as the curtain drops. I do not aim to draw a perfect character, for after a pretty long acquaintance with mankind I have never met with any one example of the sort ; how then shall I describe what I have not seen ? On the contrary, if I wish to form a character, like this of Henry, in which virtue predominates, or like that of Blachford, where the opposite qualities prevail, I have nature before me in both cases...
الصفحة 21 - ... dog, who sallied forth in her defence with all possible alacrity, bristling every hair with ardour for revenge, and rushing to the ford, where the flouncing and dashing of the waters directed him to the scene of action. Without a moment's hesitation, this amphibious animal plunged into the stream, at the very moment when Zachary's fate hung upon the balance, and the nymph of the brook was preparing to receive him in her arms.
الصفحة 4 - I am fairly responsible, and no less for the purity of the narrative; for, though the real scenes of life can hardly fail to contaminate the page that records them, the writer who invents impurities is without excuse.
الصفحة 203 - The best time for bookselling, is when there is no kind of news stirring ; then many of those who for months would have done nothing but talk of war or peace, revolutions, and counter-revolutions, &c. &c., for want of other amusement will have recourse to books ; so that I have often experienced that the report of a war, or the trial of a great man, or indeed...