The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams: Written in Imitation of the Manner of Cervantes, Author of Don Quixote, Količina 2B. Blackwell, 1926 |
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Stran 210 - I shall do so; But I must also feel it as a man : I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me.
Stran 66 - Let those, therefore, that describe lions and tigers, and heroes fiercer than both, raise their poems or plays with the simile of Joseph Andrews, who is himself above the reach of any simile.
Stran 57 - Indeed, if this good man had an enthusiasm, or what the vulgar call a blind side, it was this : he thought a schoolmaster the greatest character in the world, and himself the greatest of all schoolmasters ; neither of which points he would have given up to Alexander the Great at the head of his army.
Stran 23 - Went to the auction ; told lady she had a dirty face ; laughed heartily at something captain said, I can't remember what, for I did not very well hear it ; whispered lord ; bowed to the duke of ; and was going to bid for a snuff-box, but did not, for fear I should have had it. From 2 to 4, drest myself. A groan. 4 to 6, dined. A groan. 6 to 8, coffee-house. 8 to 9, Drury.lane playhouse. 9 to 10, Lincoln's Inn Fields. 10 to 12, Drawing.room.
Stran 159 - Mr. Didapper, or Beau Didapper, was a young gentleman of about four foot five inches in height.. He wore his own hair, though the scarcity of it might have given him sufficient excuse for a periwig. His face was thin and pale ; the shape of his body and legs none of the best, for he had very narrow shoulders, and no calf; and his gait might more properly be called hopping than walking.
Stran 3 - Genius, the Authors of immense Romances, or the .modern Novel and Atalantis Writers ; who, without any assistance from Nature or History, record Persons who never were, or will be, and Facts which never did, nor possibly can, happen ; whose Heroes are of their own Creation, and their Brains the Chaos whence all their materials are collected.
Stran 154 - At which words one came hastily in, and acquainted Mr Adams that his youngest son was drowned. He stood silent a moment, and soon began to stamp about the room and deplore his loss with the bitterest agony. Joseph, who was overwhelmed with concern likewise, recovered himself sufficiently to endeavour to comfort the parson ; in which attempt he used many arguments that he had at several times remembered out of his own discourses, both in private and public (for he was a great enemy to the passions,...
Stran 5 - Towwouse is coeval with our lawyer, and tho' perhaps during the changes, which so long an existence must have passed through, she -may in her turn have stood behind the bar at an inn, I will not scruple to affirm, she hath likewise in the revolution of ages sat on a throne.
Stran 4 - I declare here once for all, I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Stran 209 - Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.