Henry ... By the author of Arundel [i.e. R. Cumberland].P. Wogan, 1795 |
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... must be at laft , and drunk he muft die . With the hero of my novel it is otherwise : over him I have defpotic power ; his fate and fortune , life or death , depend on my will ; and whether I fhall crown him with length of days and ...
... must be at laft , and drunk he muft die . With the hero of my novel it is otherwise : over him I have defpotic power ; his fate and fortune , life or death , depend on my will ; and whether I fhall crown him with length of days and ...
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... must be liable to , let thofe , who have ftaked their happiness upon fuch expectations , declare . 2 Zachary , who was indebted to the courtesy . of his neighbours for putting Doctor before his name , which by their favour was a title ...
... must be liable to , let thofe , who have ftaked their happiness upon fuch expectations , declare . 2 Zachary , who was indebted to the courtesy . of his neighbours for putting Doctor before his name , which by their favour was a title ...
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... must submit to my hard fortune . I ' was born in mifery , and in mifery I muft die . " There is a voice , a look , a tone in truth and innocence , which holds a fympathy with the hearts of those , on whom their evidences light ...
... must submit to my hard fortune . I ' was born in mifery , and in mifery I muft die . " There is a voice , a look , a tone in truth and innocence , which holds a fympathy with the hearts of those , on whom their evidences light ...
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... must take leave to diffent from the elect . " - This faid , he quitted the room , and left the inebriated zealot to digeft his doc- trine as fhe could . CHAPTER VII . A timely Refcue . HE next morning Henry arofe with the THE lark , and ...
... must take leave to diffent from the elect . " - This faid , he quitted the room , and left the inebriated zealot to digeft his doc- trine as fhe could . CHAPTER VII . A timely Refcue . HE next morning Henry arofe with the THE lark , and ...
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... must they be ad- dreffed ? " - " My name is Blachford ; you must be new in thefe parts , not to know me . ' - " I am a stranger , it is true , in this place , " rejoined Henry , " and have not the honour of knowing you , but I fhall ...
... must they be ad- dreffed ? " - " My name is Blachford ; you must be new in thefe parts , not to know me . ' - " I am a stranger , it is true , in this place , " rejoined Henry , " and have not the honour of knowing you , but I fhall ...
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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...