Life of Tobias George SmollettW. Scott, 1887 - 163 頁 |
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24 Warwick Lane Admiral Knowles Adventures appear Battle of Culloden Bonhill Bowling British called Captain Carlyle Carthagena Cervantes character comedy Count Fathom Critical Review Doctor Don Quixote doubt Edinburgh eighteenth century English expedition feel fight followed gentlemen George Cruikshank Gil Blas Glasgow Hatchway hero honour human humour Humphrey Clinker indignation John Joseph Skipsey Lady least letter Lieutenant literary literature live London look Lord memoirs Monthly nature navy never novel novelist Oakum officers Oliver Goldsmith Paternoster Row Peregrine Pickle person picture Poems Poets praise quarrels reader Regicide Roderick Random sailor satire scene Scotch Scotchman Scotland seamen ship Sir James Sir Launcelot Greaves Sir Walter Skipsey sordid and vicious Spaniards story things tion Tobias Smollett told Tom Jones translation of Don Trunnion verse vols volumes WALTER SCOTT WILLIAM SHARP writing written
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第 61 頁 - OF all kinds of satire, there is none so entertaining and universally improving as that which is introduced, as it were, occasionally, in the course of an interesting story, which brings every incident home to life...
第 51 頁 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
第 61 頁 - Bias, has described the knavery and foibles of life, with infinite humour and sagacity. — The following sheets I have modelled on his plan, taking the liberty, however, to differ from him in the execution, \vhere I thought his particular situations were uncommon, extravagant, or peculiar to the country in which the scene is laid.
第 118 頁 - ... —It seems, this wag, after having made some abortive attempts in plain speaking, had recourse to this defect by means of which he frequently extorted the laugh of the company, without the least expense of genius : and that imperfection, which he had at first counterfeited, was now become so habitual, that he could not lay it aside. A certain winking genius, who wore yellow gloves at dinner, had, on his first introduction, taken such offence at S .because he looked and talked, and ate and drank...
第 153 頁 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
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第 37 頁 - This picture cannot fail to be shocking to the humane reader, especially when he is informed that while these miserable objects cried in vain for assistance, and actually perished for want of proper attendance, every ship of war in the fleet could have spared a couple of surgeons for their relief, and many young gentlemen of that profession solicited their captains in vain for leave to go and administer help to the sick and wounded.
第 114 頁 - Know, then, I can despise your pride, while I honour your integrity ; and applaud your taste, while I am shocked at your ostentation. — I have known you trifling, superficial, and obstinate in dispute ; meanly jealous and awkwardly reserved; rash and haughty in your resentments: and coarse and lowly in your connections.
第 137 頁 - I protest before God I have, as far as in me lay, adhered to truth, without espousing any faction, though I own I sat down to write with a warm side to those principles in which I was educated ; but in the course of my inquiries, some of the Whig ministers turned out such a set of sordid knaves, that I could not help stigmatizing them for their want of integrity and sentiment.
第 62 頁 - The disgraces of Gil Bias are, for the most part, such as rather excite mirth than compassion: he himself laughs at them; and his transitions from distress to happiness, or at least ease, are so sudden, that neither the reader has time to pity him, nor himself to be acquainted with affliction. This conduct, in my opinion, not only deviates from probability, but prevents that generous indignation which ought to animate the reader against the sordid and vicious disposition of the world.