They place a merit in extravagant passions, and encourage young people to hope for impossible events, to draw them out of the misery they choose to plunge themselves into, expecting legacies from unknown relations, and generous benefactors to distressed... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 5031804Full view - About this book
| 1804 - 574 pages
...Novels, but she perceived their evil-tendency, which she thus reprobates : ' All this sort of bonks have the same fault, which I cannot easily pardon,...distressed virtue, as much out of nature as fairy treasure-;.' The works of Fielding and Smollett were great favorites with her Ladyship, in this line... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1805 - 296 pages
...author. H. Fielding has given a true picture of himself and his first wife, in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure...virtue, as much out of nature as fairy treasures. Fielding has really a fund of true humour, and was to be pitied at his first entrance into the world,... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1817 - 374 pages
...first wife, in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure excppted ; and, I am persuaded, several of the incidents he mentions...virtue, as much out of nature as fairy treasures. Fielding has really a fund of true humour, and was to be pitied at his first entrance into the world,... | |
| 1821 - 346 pages
...misery they choose to plunge themselves into j expecting legacies from unknown relations, and gene, rous benefactors to distressed virtue, as much out of nature as fairy treasures. Fielding has really a fund of true humour, and was to be pitied at his first entrance into the world,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 pages
...out of the misery they choose to plunge themselves into, expecting legacies from unknown relatives, and generous benefactors to distressed virtue, as much out of nature as fairy treasures."— LADY MW MONTAGU — Works, vol. iv., p. 259-60.] new scenes of misery. But our sympathy for the wife... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 pages
...out of the misery they choose to plunge themselves into, expecting legacies from unknown relatives, and generous benefactors to distressed virtue, as much out of nature as fairy treasures."— LADY MW MONTAGU — Works, vol. iv., p. 239-60.] new scenes of misery. But our sympathy for the wife... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 496 pages
...author. H. Fielding has given a true picture of himself and his first wife, in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure...virtue, as much out of nature as fairy treasures. Fielding has really a fund of true humour, and was to be pitied at his first entrance into the world,... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1837 - 698 pages
...author. H. Fielding has given a true picture of himself and his first wife, in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure...virtue, as much out of nature as fairy treasures. Fielding has really a fund of true humour, and was to be pitied at his first entrance into the world,... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 622 pages
...real matters of fact. I wonder, however, that he does not perceive Tom Jones and Mr. Booth to be both sorry scoundrels. All this sort of books have the...its infancy, and will no longer be contented with spoon-meat. A collective body of men make a gradual progress in understanding, like a single individual.... | |
| 1893 - 846 pages
...for Impossible events, to draw them out of the misery they chose to plunge themselves into, existing legacies from unknown relations and generous benefactors...distressed virtue, as much out of nature as fairy treasnres. There are many other lively bits of criticism on which one would like to dwell if space... | |
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