The works of Henry Fielding, ed. with a biogr. essay by L. Stephen, Volume 81882 |
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Page 361 - Pouring forth tears at such a lavish rate, That were the world on fire, they might have drown'd The wrath of Heaven, and quench'd the mighty ruin.
Page 386 - To understand sufficiently the beauty of this passage, it will be necessary that we comprehend every man to contain two selfs. I shall not attempt to prove this from philosophy, which the poets make so plainly evident. One runs away from the other: Let me demand your majesty, Why fly you from yourself? Duke of Guise.
Page 359 - Are Infant Dwarfs. They frown, and foam, and roar, While Thumb regardless of their Noise rides on. So some Cock-Sparrow in a Farmer's Yard, Hops at the Head of an huge Flock of Turkeys.
Page 371 - In this scale put my virtue, that Tom Thumb. Alas ! Tom Thumb is heavier than my virtue. But hold ! — perhaps I may be left a widow : This match prevented, then Tom Thumb is mine : In that dear hope I will forget my pain.
Page 386 - Our author, who everywhere shows his great penetration into human nature, here outdoes himself : where a less judicious poet would have raised a long scene of whining love, he, who understood the passions better, and that so violent an affection as this must be too big for utterance, chooses rather to send his characters off in this sullen and doleful manner, in which admirable conduct he is imitated by the author of the justly celebrated Eurydice. Dr. Young seems to point at this violence of passion...
Page 399 - As if the Gods meant to unhinge the World; And Heaven and Earth in wild Confusion hurl; Yet will I boldly tread the tott'ring Ball.
Page 358 - That learned Historian Mr. S n in the third Number of his Criticism on our Author, takes great Pains to explode this Passage. It is, says he, difficult to guess what Giants are here meant, unless the Giant Despair in the Pilgrim's Progress , or the Giant Greatness in the Royal Villain ; for I have heard of no other sort of Giants in the Reign of King Arthur.
Page 370 - This Epithet to a Dolphin doth not give one so clear an Idea as were to be wished, a smiling Fish seeming a little more difficult to be imagined than a flying Fish. Mr. Dryden is of Opinion, that smiling is the Property of Reason, and that no irrational Creature can smile. Smiles not allowed to Beasts from Reason move.
Page 314 - If e'er we meet hereafter, we shall meet In happier climes, and on a safer shore, Where Caesar never shall approach us more.
Page 382 - In another of dough : When the gods moulded up the paste of man, Some of their clay was left upon their hands, And so they made Egyptians.