The Man of FeelingJ. Taylor, 1800 - 176 pàgines "The Man of Feeling " is a sentimental novel published in 1771, written by Scottish author Henry Mackenzie. The novel presents a series of moral vignettes which the naïve protagonist Harley either observes, is told about, or participates in. This novelis often seen to contain elements of the Romantic novel, which became prolific in the years following its publishing. |
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Pàgina 133 - Harley's family as valet, butler, and gardener, had orders to furnish him with parcels of the different seeds he chose to sow in it. I have seen his master at work in this little spot, with his coat off, and his dibble in his hand : it was a scene of tranquil virtue to have stopped an angel on his errands of mercy ! Harley had contrived to lead a little bubbling brook through a green walk in the middle of the ground, upon which he had erected a mill in miniature for the diversion of Edwards...
Pàgina 117 - An officer with press orders came down to our county, and having met with the justices agreed that they should pitch on a certain number, who could most easily be spared from the county, of whom he would take care to clear it: my son's name was in the justices
Pàgina 131 - But we take our ideas from sounds which folly has invented; Fashion, Bon ton, and Vertu, are the names of certain idols, to which we sacrifice the genuine pleasures of the soul : in this world of semblance, we are contented with personating happiness ; to feel it, is an art beyond us.
Pàgina 38 - He had no change for the beggar," said Harley to himself; "but I can easily account for it; it is curious to observe the affection that inanimate things will create in us by a long acquaintance : if I may judge from my own feelings, the old man would not part with one of these counters for ten times its intrinsic value ; it even got the better of his benevolence ! I myself have a pair of old brass...
Pàgina 31 - OF those things called sights in London, which every stranger is supposed desirous to see, Bedlam is one. To that place, therefore, an acquaintance of Harley's, after having accompanied him to several other shows, proposed a visit. Harley objected to it, Because, said he, I think it an inhuman practice to expose the greatest misery with which our nature is afflicted, to every idle visitant who can afford a trifling perquisite to the keeper; especially as it is a distress which the humane must see...
Pàgina 124 - what do I see : silent, unroofed, and desolate ! Are all thy gay tenants gone ? Do I hear their hum no more ? Edwards, look there, look there ! the scene of my infant joys, my earliest friendships, laid waste and ruinous...
Pàgina 131 - Here it is, grandfather," said the boy. Edwards gazed upon it without uttering a word : the girl, who had only sighed before, now wept outright; her brother sobbed...
Pàgina 131 - Harley : he ran up stairs to his aunt, with the history of his fellow-travellers glowing on his lips. His aunt was an (economist ; but she knew the pleasure of doing charitable things, and withal was fond of her nephew, and solicitous to oblige him. She received Old Edwards, therefore, with a look of more complacency than is perhaps natural to maiden ladies of threescore, and was remarkably attentive to his grand-children : she roasted apples with her own hands for their supper, and made up a little...
Pàgina 20 - Heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there ; so I changed my plan, and, instead of telling my own misfortunes, began to prophesy happiness to others. This I found by much the better way : folks will always listen when the tale is their own...
Pàgina 33 - Harley bowed, and accepted his offer. The next person they came up to had scrawled a variety of figures on a piece of slate. Harley had the curiosity to take a nearer view of them. They consisted of different columns, on the top of which were marked South-sea annuities, Indiastock, and Three per Cent annuities consol. ' This ', said Harley's instructor, ' was a gentleman well known in Change Alley.