Episodes of Fiction, Or, Choice Stories from the Great Novelists, with Biographical Introductions: Numerous Original Illustrations by Eminent Artists Engraved on Wood by R. PatersonVirtue & Yorston, 1869 - 304 страници |
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... characters he invented , until they ceased to be characters , and became persons ; until he lost his individual self - con- sciousness , and absolutely identified himself with the creations of his brain . It is remarkable that a writer ...
... characters he invented , until they ceased to be characters , and became persons ; until he lost his individual self - con- sciousness , and absolutely identified himself with the creations of his brain . It is remarkable that a writer ...
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... character , may be found in " Moll Flanders " and " Roxana , " but they deal with things and per- sons which disgust our sympathies , and are written with a grossness that repels the modern reader . Mr Forster endeavours to excuse their ...
... character , may be found in " Moll Flanders " and " Roxana , " but they deal with things and per- sons which disgust our sympathies , and are written with a grossness that repels the modern reader . Mr Forster endeavours to excuse their ...
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... character . had surmounted court prejudices , and converted the mind of the sovereign , may be inferred from the fact that he was employed in negotiating the Treaty of Union with Scotland , and rewarded for his services with a pen- sion ...
... character . had surmounted court prejudices , and converted the mind of the sovereign , may be inferred from the fact that he was employed in negotiating the Treaty of Union with Scotland , and rewarded for his services with a pen- sion ...
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... superficial , insincere , and commonplace . Let us do justice to his analysis of character and his command over the springs of emotion ; to his faculty of invention , and his almost tragical APPEARANCE OF " CLARISSA HARLOWE . ” 31 pathos ;
... superficial , insincere , and commonplace . Let us do justice to his analysis of character and his command over the springs of emotion ; to his faculty of invention , and his almost tragical APPEARANCE OF " CLARISSA HARLOWE . ” 31 pathos ;
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... character than men .. We could name several female novelists who might have written " Pamela " and " Clarissa " ; but we know of no other man than Richardson who could have done so . His last important work was " Sir Charles Grandison ...
... character than men .. We could name several female novelists who might have written " Pamela " and " Clarissa " ; but we know of no other man than Richardson who could have done so . His last important work was " Sir Charles Grandison ...
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admirable Adventures appeared arms beautiful began bless BORN bridegroom character CHARLOTTE SMITH child Clarissa Colonel Cordery corporal countenance cousin cried dæmon daughter dear death died door English eyes father favour fear feeling Ferdinand fiction Firkins friends gave genius gentleman Gurney hand happy Hardress head heard heart HENRY FIELDING honour Horace Walpole hounds hour human humour imagination Isabella Joseph Joseph Andrews lady LAWRENCE STERNE LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON literary lived London look Lord lost Lovelace Manfred Marchesa Maria mind Morden never night novel novelist Oroonoko passed person poor pre-Adamite published Rayland replied returned Richardson romance Samuel Richardson says scenes Schedoni seemed servant silent soon sound spirits stood story tell thee things thou thought tion told Tom Jones took tree Trim Tristram Shandy truth Uncle Toby Vathek voice wife wild WILLIAM BECKFORD woman young
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Страница 110 - said my uncle Toby firmly. ' ' A-well-o'-day, do what we can for him," said Trim, maintaining his point, "the poor soul will die." " He shall not die, by G— ," cried my uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Страница 105 - I was answered, an' please your honour, that he had no servant with him; that he had come to the inn with hired horses, which, upon finding himself unable to proceed (to join, I suppose, the regiment), he had dismissed the morning after he came. — If I get better, my dear, said he, as he gave his purse to his son to pay the man, — we can hire horses from hence.
Страница 109 - ... and falling down upon his knee, took the ring in his hand, and kissed it too ; then kissed his father, and sat down upon the bed and wept.
Страница 104 - I fear so, replied my uncle Toby; but I am not at rest in my mind, Trim, since the account the landlord has given me. I wish I had not known so much of this affair, — added my uncle Toby, — or that I had known more of it: How shall we manage it?
Страница 106 - I heard the poor gentleman say his prayers last night,' said the landlady, ' very devoutly, and with my own ears, or I could not have believed it.' ' Are sure of it ? ' replied the curate. ' A soldier, an' please your reverence,' said I, ' prays as often (of his own accord) as a parson ; and when he is fighting for his king, and for his own life, and for his honour, too, he has the most reason to pray to God, of any one in the whole world.' " " 'Twas well said of thee, Trim," said my Uncle Toby....
Страница 105 - I was hearing this account, continued the Corporal, when the youth came into the kitchen, to order the thin toast the landlord spoke of: — but I will do it for my father myself, said the youth.
Страница 111 - The blood and spirits of Le Fevre, which were waxing cold and slow within him, and were retreating to their last citadel, the heart rallied back...
Страница 6 - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters ; or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church, which appeared on the first of December, 1702.
Страница 105 - Poor youth ! said my uncle Toby — he has been bred up from an infant in the army, and the name of a soldier, Trim, sounded in his ears, like the name of a friend. I wish I had him here. — I never, in the longest march...
Страница 104 - It was not till my uncle Toby had knocked the ashes out of his third pipe that corporal Trim returned from the inn, and gave him the following account :