 | Samuel Richardson - 1804 - 360 páginas
...lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging-house, we should have thought him a genius, and •wished he...education, and of being admitted into good company ; but it is beyond my conception, that a man of family, and who liad some learning, and who really... | |
 | 1804 - 352 páginas
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 | Vicesimus Knox - 1825 - 422 páginas
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 | Henry Fielding, Walter Scott - 1831 - 564 páginas
...runner at a spunging-house, one should have thought him a genius, and wished he had had theadvantage of a liberal education, and of being admitted into...and that he would soon be forgotten as an author. Fieldingdoes not appear to have retorted any of this ill-will, so that, if he gave the first offence,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 790 páginas
...lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging house, we should have thought him a genius, and wished he had...education, and of being admitted into good company ; but it is beyond my conception, that a man of family, and who had some learning, and who really is... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 páginas
...telling his sister, that I was equally surprised at, and concerned for, his continued lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a...alleged that Fielding was destitute of invention and talent; that the run of his best works was nearly over j and that he would soon be forgotten as an... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1849 - 544 páginas
...1849.] The Life and Works of Henry Fielding. 79 born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging-house, one should have thought him a genius, and wished he...education, and of being admitted into good company." He goes on to say, that it is beyond his conception, that a man of family, having " some learning,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 412 páginas
...continual lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging-house, one should have thought him a genius, and wished he...education, and of being admitted into good company." He goes on to say, that it is beyond his conception, that a man of family, having " some learning,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1853 - 100 páginas
...lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging-house, we should have thought him a genius, and wished he had...education, and of being admitted into good company ; but it is beyond my conception, that a man of family, and who had some learning, and who really is... | |
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Poor Fielding ! I could not help telling his sister, that I was equally surprised at and concerned for his continued lowness. Had your brother... 
