The Works of Henry Fielding: Jonathan Wild. 1893J. M. Dent & Company, 1893 |
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acquainted answered appear apprehension assure Bagshot began begged Blueskin booty brought called cant language captain Chapter character comfort count countenance desired doth Dunkirk endeavour execution eyes favour fear Fireblood fortune Friendly friendship gang gentle gentleman GEORGE SAINTSBURY give greatly guineas happiness Harwich hath Heartfree Heartfree's HENRY FIELDING hero highwayman honour hope human husband imagine immediately injury 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 passion perceived perhaps person pleasure pocket present Priapus prig procure promised reader reason received resolved robbed robbery scheme seemed shew Snap soon suffer sure surprize tender Theodosia thou thought told truth Tyburn utmost violent vulgar whole wife Wild's wise woman words young lady
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Page 220 - 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 146 - ... 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 145 - ... do. To say the truth, a puppetshow will illustrate our meaning better, where it is the master of the show (the great man) who dances and moves...
Page 224 - ... 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 130 - 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 74 - Why then should any Man wish to be a Prig, or where is his GREATNESS? I answer, in his Mind: 'Tis the inward Glory, the secret Consciousness of doing great and wonderful Actions...