The Works of Henry Fielding: The history of the life of the late Mr. Jonathan Wild, the greatCrowell, 1903 |
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Page 279 - But, though envy was, through fear, obliged to join the general voice in applause on this occasion, there were not wanting some who maligned this completion of glory, which was now about to be fulfilled to our hero, and endeavoured to prevent it by knocking him on the head as he stood under the tree, while the ordinary was performing his last office. They therefore began to batter the cart with stones, brickbats, dirt, and all manner of mischievous weapons...
Page xxi - It is not easy to see what Fielding proposed to himself by a picture of complete vice, unrelieved by any thing of human feeling, and never by any accident even deviating into virtue ; and the ascribing a train of fictitious adventures to a real character, has in it something...
Page 166 - She accompanied these words with so tender an accent and so wanton a leer, that Fireblood, who was no backward youth, began to take her by the hand, and proceeded so warmly, that, to imitate his actions with the rapidity of our narration, he in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. Fireblood, after he had ravished as much as he could, returned to Wild, and acquainted him, as far as any wise man would,...
Page 284 - That many men were undone by not going deep enough in roguery ; as in gaming any man may be a loser who doth not play the whole game.
Page 187 - ... say and do. To say the truth, a puppet-show will illustrate our meaning better, where it is the master of the show (the great man) who dances and moves everything, whether it be the king of Muscovy or whatever other potentate alias puppet which we behold on the stage ; but he himself keeps wisely out of sight, for, should he once appear, the whole motion would be at an end.
Page 28 - THE count missed his money the next morning, and very well knew who had it; but, as he knew likewise how fruitless would be any complaint, he chose to pass it by without mentioning it. Indeed it may appear strange to "some readers, that these gentlemen, who knew each other to be thieves, should never once give the least hint of this knowledge in all their discourse together ; but on the contrary, should have the words honesty, honour, and friendship, as often in their mouths as any other men.
Page 188 - ... yet, if thou hast any penetration, thou must have had some occasions to admire both the solemnity of countenance in the actor, and the gravity in the spectator, while some of those farces are carried on, which are acted almost daily in every village in the kingdom. He must have a very despicable opinion of mankind indeed, who can conceive them to be imposed on as often as they appear to be so.
Page 67 - Mankind are first properly to be considered under two grand divisions, those that use their own hands, and those who employ the hands of others.
Page 283 - To know no distinction of men from affection ; but to sacrifice all with equal readiness to his interest. 3. Never to communicate more of an affair than was necessary to the person who was to execute it. 4. Not to trust him who hath deceived you, nor who knows he hath been deceived by you. 5. To forgive no enemy ; but to be cautious and often dilatory in revenge. 6. To shun poverty and distress, and to ally himself as close as possible to power and riches.