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... strong , to help distressed damsels , and to fight giants . The medieval romances which turned the brain of Don Quixote were good so far , at least , or that noble gentleman would never have been fired into madness by reading them ...
... strong , to help distressed damsels , and to fight giants . The medieval romances which turned the brain of Don Quixote were good so far , at least , or that noble gentleman would never have been fired into madness by reading them ...
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... quality being always essential to man ; but beyond that , they had scarcely one human virtue . Fielding , with a high scorn for what is effeminate in man , makes his heroes strong as well as brave and generous VICIOUS HEROES . CIOUS 53.
... quality being always essential to man ; but beyond that , they had scarcely one human virtue . Fielding , with a high scorn for what is effeminate in man , makes his heroes strong as well as brave and generous VICIOUS HEROES . CIOUS 53.
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James Hain Friswell. makes his heroes strong as well as brave and generous , and especially open , bold , and manly . His Tom Jones has a good appetite , can drink , eat , fight , make love , and enjoy himself , and is quite a different ...
James Hain Friswell. makes his heroes strong as well as brave and generous , and especially open , bold , and manly . His Tom Jones has a good appetite , can drink , eat , fight , make love , and enjoy himself , and is quite a different ...
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... strong , Like angel - visits short and bright ; Mortality's too weak to bear them long . Poor Human Nature ! Here , in this very quotation , is her weakness discovered . The Campbell - Blair imitation has not half the beauty of the ...
... strong , Like angel - visits short and bright ; Mortality's too weak to bear them long . Poor Human Nature ! Here , in this very quotation , is her weakness discovered . The Campbell - Blair imitation has not half the beauty of the ...
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... strong natural impulse for what is good , it is very difficult indeed not to despise the foolish and the wrong . For the strong in moral force , it is again more difficult not to despise the weak and tortuous . For the humorous and ...
... strong natural impulse for what is good , it is very difficult indeed not to despise the foolish and the wrong . For the strong in moral force , it is again more difficult not to despise the weak and tortuous . For the humorous and ...
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Page 108 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 62 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 178 - O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 181 - But that vast portion, lastly, of the working class which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven^ born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes, — to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.
Page 8 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.