The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Dramatic worksSmith, Elder & Company, 1882 |
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Page 179 - Now, Mr Sneerwell, we shall begin my third and last act; and I believe I may defy all the poets who have ever writ, or ever will write, to produce its equal: it is, sir, so crammed with drums and trumpets, thunder and lightning, battles and ghosts, that I believe the audience will want no entertainment after it...
Page 334 - What think you now? Whose face looks worst, yours or mine? Ah ! thou foolish follower of the ragged Nine, You'd better stuck to honest Abraham Adams, by half: He, in spite of critics, can make your readers laugh. But to the Prologue. — What shall I say? Why, faith, in my sense, I take plain truth to be the best defence. I think, then, it was horrid stuff; and in my humble apprehension, Had it been spoke, not worthy your attention. I'll give you a sample, if I can recollect it.
Page 228 - Damned, sir, damned; they were damned at my first rehearsal, for which reason I have cut them out ; and to tell you the truth, I think the town has honoured 'em enough with talking of 'em for a whole month; though, faith, I believe it was owing to their having nothing else to talk of.
Page 123 - Pasquin. A Dramatick Satire on the Times : Being the Rehearsal of Two Plays, viz. A Comedy call'd The Election ; and a Tragedy call'd The Life and Death of Common-Sense.
Page 170 - Will they, my lord? then better we had none: But I have also heard a sweet bird sing, That men unable to discharge their debts At a short warning, being sued for them, Have, with both power and will their debts to pay, Lain all their lives in prison for their costs.
Page 197 - This is a day, in days of yore, Our fathers never saw before : This is a day, 'tis one to ten, Our sons will never see again.
Page 168 - Voices were heard i' th' air, and seem'd to say, Awake my drowsy sons, and sleep no more: They must mean something ! • Law. Certainly they must— — — We have our omens too ! The other day A mighty deluge swam into our hall, As if it meant to wash away the law : Lawyers were forc'd to ride on porters' shoulders; One, O prodigious omen ! tumbled down, And he and all his briefs were sous'd together.
Page 327 - How, my Lord, resign my wife ! Fortune, which made me poor made me a servant ; but nature, which made me an Englishman, preserved me from being a slave. I have as good a right to the little I claim, as the proudest peer hath to his great possessions ; and whilst I am able, I will defend it.
Page 228 - I have too great an honour for Shakespeare to think of burlesquing him, and to be sure of not burlesquing him, I will never attempt to alter him for fear of burlesquing him by accident, as perhaps some others have done/ > LORD DAPPER.
Page 398 - Custom may lead a man into many errors, but it justifies none ; nor are any of its laws more absurd and unjust than those relating to the commerce between the sexes : for what can be more ridiculous than to make it infamous for...