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The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling, Volume 2 Henry Fielding,Thomas Roscoe Visualização integral - 1836 |
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Página 171 - Who ever demanded the reasons of that nice unity of time or place which is now established to be so essential to dramatic poetry? What critic hath been ever asked, why a play may not contain two days as well as one ? Or why the audience (provided they travel, like electors, without any expense) may not be wafted fifty miles as well as five?
Página 212 - Circassian beauty, drest in all the jewels of the Indies, appear to my eyes ! But why do I mention another woman? Could I think my eyes capable of looking at any other with tenderness, these hands should tear them from my head. No, my Sophia, if cruel fortune separates us for ever, my soul shall doat on thee alone.
Página 127 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Página xiv - Good-Nature is that benevolent and amiable Temper of Mind which disposes us to feel the Misfortunes, and enjoy the Happiness of others ; and consequently pushes us on to promote the latter, and prevent the former...
Página 337 - For though every good author will confine himself within the bounds of probability, it is by no means necessary that his characters, or his incidents, should be trite, common, or vulgar ; such as happen in every street, or in every house, or which may be met with in the home articles of a newspaper.
Página 336 - In the last place, the actions should be such as may not only be within the compass of human agency, and which human agents may probably be supposed to do; but they should be likely for the very actors and characters themselves to have performed; for what may be only wonderful and surprising in one man, may become improbable, or indeed impossible, when related of another.
Página 22 - From the name of my patron, indeed, I hope my reader will be convinced, at his very entrance on this work, that he will find in the whole course of it nothing prejudicial to the cause of religion and virtue ; nothing inconsistent with the strictest rules of decency, nor which can offend even the chastest eye in the perusal.
Página 25 - To prevent therefore giving offence to their customers by any such disappointment, it hath been usual with the honest and well-meaning host, to provide a bill of fare which all persons may peruse at their first entrance into the house; and having thence acquainted themselves with the entertainment which they may expect, may either stay and regale with what is provided for them, or may depart to some other ordinary better accommodated to their taste.
Página 411 - I am convinced I never make my reader laugh heartily, but where I have laughed before him ; unless it should happen at any time, that instead of laughing with me, he should be inclined to laugh at me. Perhaps this may have been the case at some passages in this chapter, from which apprehension I will here put an end to it.
Página 26 - Many exquisite viands might be rejected by the epicure, if it was a sufficient cause for his contemning of them as common and vulgar, that something was to be found in the most paltry alleys under the same name. In reality, true nature is as difficult to be met with in authors, as the Bayonne ham, or Bologna sausage, is to be found in the shops.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Volume 1 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Henry Fielding Wesleyan edition of the works of Henry Fielding |
| Autor | Henry Fielding |
| Editora | Harper & bros., 1836 |
| Original de | Universidade de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 7 Mar 2008 |
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