The Life of Henry Fielding: With Notices of His Writings, His Times, and His ContemporariesA. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1855 - 384 Seiten |
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... Gentleman's Magazine , " Fielding's " Tragedy of Tragedies " is thus mentioned in a long poem on the versifiers of the age : — " " Tis not enough to gain a wild applause , When crowded theatres espouse your cause . But aim to soar in ...
... Gentleman's Magazine , " Fielding's " Tragedy of Tragedies " is thus mentioned in a long poem on the versifiers of the age : — " " Tis not enough to gain a wild applause , When crowded theatres espouse your cause . But aim to soar in ...
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... Gentleman's Magazine " for September , 1733 , as sung at " Fielding's booth at Bartholomew Fair . " It begins with the following lines : - " Sweet , if you love me , smiling turn , Smiling turn , smiling turn , " & c . ( 2 ) Some ...
... Gentleman's Magazine " for September , 1733 , as sung at " Fielding's booth at Bartholomew Fair . " It begins with the following lines : - " Sweet , if you love me , smiling turn , Smiling turn , smiling turn , " & c . ( 2 ) Some ...
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... gentlemen of this town who make a jest of damning plays ; but did they seriously consider the cruelty they are guilty ... Gentleman's Magazine " for 1735 , that the audience sat quietly till the third act was almost over , expecting the ...
... gentlemen of this town who make a jest of damning plays ; but did they seriously consider the cruelty they are guilty ... Gentleman's Magazine " for 1735 , that the audience sat quietly till the third act was almost over , expecting the ...
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... gentleman ; surrounded by his books , and relieving his literary labours by rural recreations . His constitution had ... Gentleman's Magazine , " vol . lxxi . Both the tree and the house ( it has been courteously communicated to the ...
... gentleman ; surrounded by his books , and relieving his literary labours by rural recreations . His constitution had ... Gentleman's Magazine , " vol . lxxi . Both the tree and the house ( it has been courteously communicated to the ...
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... Gentleman's Magazine , " was one of these . He was in the habit of purchasing Boyse's poetry , and paying for it by the hundred lines ; but after a time , taking advantage of the author's poverty , he insisted on making this " the long ...
... Gentleman's Magazine , " was one of these . He was in the habit of purchasing Boyse's poetry , and paying for it by the hundred lines ; but after a time , taking advantage of the author's poverty , he insisted on making this " the long ...
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Seite 378 - Twelfth Night:"— " Let still the woman take An elder than herself; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than women's are.
Seite 353 - His happy constitution (even when he had with great pains half demolished it) made him forget every evil when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne; and I am persuaded he has known more happy moments than any prince on earth. His natural spirits gave him rapture with his cookmaid,
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Seite 244 - the melancholy truth that among the variety of actions which men are liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies, without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.
Seite 26 - Henley stands, Timing his voice, and balancing his hands. How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue! How sweet the periods, neither said nor sung! Still break the benches, Henley! with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson preach in vain. Oh, great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once, and zany of thy age!
Seite 360 - Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward; a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had no resolution to fire it off himself, but left half-a-crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death."*
Seite 265 - have done exactly the same. I know you are only joking with me; but indeed, madam, though I was never at a play in London, yet I have seen acting before in the country; and the king for my money; he speaks all his words distinctly, half as loud again as the other. Anybody may see he is an actor.
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Seite 356 - He was the inventor of that cant phrase, goodness of heart, which is every day used as a substitute for probity, and means little more than the virtue of a horse or a dog; in short, he has done more towards corrupting the rising generation than any writer we know of.
Seite 102 - is the property of those that have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on.' It is, indeed, but a precarious dependence. Thank God ! we, my lords, have a dependence of another kind; we have a much less precarious support, and