 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 страници
...disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of " Tom Jones," that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.' As for science, it seems her destiny to invent and discover on the sic vos non... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1861 - 420 страници
...may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of Austria." This confident prophecy seems in the present year to be in the course of fulfilment. Fielding received... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1861 - 506 страници
...disdain their brethren .'f England; but the romance of ' Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial, and the imperial eagle of Austria." — Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works. The mother of our author TH" a daughter of Judge Gold, one of whose... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1864 - 268 страници
...disdain their brethren of England, but the romance of ' Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the Palace of the Escurial, and the Imperial Eagle of Austria." TN" October, 1855, a dinner was given to Mr. -^ Thackeray at the London Tavern, of which one who was... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 страници
...may disdain their brethren of England : but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria.' There can be no gainsaying the sentence of this great nature he should), and he always speaks in his... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1864 - 276 страници
...disdain their brethren of England, but the romance of ' Tom Jones/ that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the Palace of the Escurial, and the Imperial Eagle of Austria."* TN October, 1855, a dinner was given to Mr. Thackeray at the London Tavern, of which one who was present... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1865 - 462 страници
...disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of ' Tom Jones/ that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of Austria." Gibbon. ЛЭ- " I cannot «ay that I think Mr. Jones a virtuous character ; I cannot say but that I... | |
 | 1849 - 636 страници
...disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of ' Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial, and the imperial eagle of the House of Austria." Byron had noble opportunities ; but he was prouder of Bnimmell's acquaintance... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 484 страници
...may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of 'Tom Jones/ that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of Austria." The field of prose fiction, so vigorously and productively cropped by Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 334 страници
...disdain their brethren of England: but the romance of 'Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria." There can be no gainsaying the sentence of this great judge. To have your name mentioned by Gibbon,... | |
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The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria. 
