The Novelist's Magazine, Volum 2Harrison and Company, 1780 A collection of separately paged novels. |
Frases i termes més freqüents
affiftance affured afked Afmodeus alfo Almena anfwered aſked becauſe captain caufe converfation cried Cringer dæmon daugh daughter defign defired devil difcovered Don Cleofas Don Fadrique dreffed expreffed eyes fafe faid faluted fame father fatire fatisfaction fatisfied favour feemed feen felf fenfe fent fervant ferved fervice feven feveral fhall fhew fhip fhort fhould fide filk fince firft fituation flave fmall fome fomething foon fooner fortune fpirits fquire ftill fubject fuch fuffered fure furprize fword gentleman heart herſelf himſelf honour houfe houſe intereft lady laft leaft lefs look mafter miferable Mifs moft moſt muft myſelf Narciffa never night obferved occafion paffed paffion perceived perfon pleafed pleaſed pleaſure poffible prefent prifoner promife propofed reafon refolved reft replied ſhe Solyman Strap thefe theſe thing thofe Thornhill thoſe thouſand tion told uſe vifit whofe wife young Zadig
Passatges populars
Pàgina 39 - Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ! The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
Pàgina 62 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, ' To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Pàgina 52 - Upon asking how he had been taught the art of a cognoscente so very suddenly, he assured me that nothing was more easy. The whole secret consisted in a strict adherence to two rules: the one always to observe, that the picture might have been better if the painter had taken more pains ; and the other, to praise the works of Pietro Perugino. But...
Pàgina 39 - And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. This dog and man at first were friends ; But when a pique began, The dog, to gain his private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
Pàgina 28 - Never mind our son," cried my wife; " depend upon it he knows what he is about. I'll warrant we'll never see him sell his hen of a rainy day.
Pàgina 21 - This member of the faculty was aged fifty, about five feet high, and ten round the belly ; his face was capacious as a full moon, and much of the complexion of a mulberry: his nose resembling a powderhorn, was swelled to an enormous size, and studded all over with carbuncles ; and his little grey eyes reflected the rays in such an oblique manner, that while he looked a person full in the face, one would have imagined he was admiring the buckle of his shoe.
Pàgina 19 - And water from the spring. Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego, All earth-born cares are wrong ; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Pàgina 28 - Well done, my good boy," returned she; "I knew you would touch them off. Between ourselves, three pounds, five shillings and twopence is no bad day's work. Come, let us have it then." "I have brought back no money," cried Moses again. "I have laid it all out in a bargain, and here it is...
Pàgina 27 - happened on the following day, I had intentions of going myself; but my wife persuaded me that I had got a cold, and nothing could prevail upon her to permit me from home. "No, my dear...
Pàgina 1 - ... 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; and, by representing familiar scenes in an uncommon and amusing point of view, invests them with all the graces of novelty, while nature is appealed to in every particular.