The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling: In Four Volumes, Volume 3A. Millar, over-against Catherine-street in the Strand., 1750 |
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Page 62 - tis his, and hath been slave to thousands: But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that WHICH NOT ENRICHES HIM, BUT MAKES ME POOR INDEED.
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Page 187 - Place me where never summer breeze Unbinds the glebe, or warms the trees; Where ever lowering clouds appear, And angry Jove deforms th' inclement year: Love and the nymph shall charm my toils, The nymph, who sweetly speaks and sweetly smiles.
Page 218 - Foretell me that some tender maid, whose grandmother is yet unborn, hereafter, when, under the fictitious name of Sophia, she reads the real worth which once existed in my Charlotte, shall from her sympathetic breast send forth the heaving sigh.
Page 4 - ... raise our compassion rather than our abhorrence. Indeed, nothing can be of more moral use than the imperfections which are seen in examples of this kind ; since such form a kind of surprise, more apt to affect and dwell upon our minds, than the faults of very vicious and wicked persons.
Page 220 - Come, thou that hast inspired thy Aristophanes, thy Lucian, thy Cervantes, thy Rabelais, thy Moliere, thy Shakespeare, thy Swift, thy Marivaux, fill my pages with humour ; till mankind learn the good-nature to laugh only at the follies of others, and the humility to grieve at their own.