Jonathan WildDent, 1893 |
Common terms and phrases
acquainted answered apprehend assure Bagshot began Blueskin booty called cant language captain Chapter character comfort count countenance death desired doth endeavour execution eyes favour Fireblood fortune Friendly friendship gang gentleman GEORGE SAINTSBURY give greatly hands hanged happiness hath Heartfree Heartfree's Heaven HENRY FIELDING hero Hockley-in-the-Hole honour hope Hubert de Burgh human husband imagine immediately innocent jewels Jonathan Wild justice justice of peace kind labour Lætitia lament Langfanger least liberty likewise mankind manner married master Wild means mind misfortune Miss Letty Miss Straddle murder nature never Newgate noble obliged occasion Old Bailey Ordinary passion perhaps person pleasure pocket present Priapus prig procure promise quibblers reader reason received reprieve resolved robbed robbery sailors seemed shew Snap soon suffer sure surprize tender Theodosia thou thought told truth utmost violent virtue vulgar whole wife Wild's wise woman word young lady
Popular passages
Page 1 - ... no two things can possibly be more distinct from each other: for Greatness consists in bringing all manner of mischief on mankind, and Goodness in removing it from them.
Page 214 - When he came to the tree of glory, he was welcomed with an universal shout of the people, who were there assembled in prodigious numbers, to behold a sight much more rare in populous cities than one would reasonably imagine it should be, viz., the proper catastrophe of a great man. 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...
Page 218 - ... sufficient to distinguish the counterfeit jewel from the real. 13. 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. 14. That men proclaim their own virtues, as shopkeepers expose their goods, in order to profit by them. 15. That the heart was the proper seat of hatred, and the countenance of affection and friendship.
Page 140 - ... world, to imagine thou hast never seen some of these puppet-shows which are so frequently acted on the great stage ; but though thou shouldst have resided all thy days in those remote parts of this island which great men seldom visit, 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....
Page 47 - 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 124 - But with you, young gentleman," says she, "I am not in the least angry. I am rather sorry that so pretty a young man should be employed in such an errand.''' 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...
Page 218 - ... 2. 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.
Page 201 - I met with no adventure in this passage at all worth relating, till my landing at Gravesend, whence the captain brought me in his own boat to the Tower. In a short hour after my arrival we had that meeting which, however dreadful at first, will, I now hope, by the good offices of the best of men, whom Heaven for ever bless, end in our perfect happiness, and be a strong instance of what I am persuaded is the surest truth, THAT PROVIDENCE WILL SOONER OR LATER PROCURE THE FELICITY OF THE VIRTUOUS AND...