 The successors of Charles V. may disdain their brethren of England: but the romance of 'Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria.  Outlines of English Literature - Page 268by Thomas Budd Shaw - 1863 - 465 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Anna Maria Hall - 838 pages
...disdain their brcthren in England, but the romance of Tum Jones • that exquisite picture of humour and manners — will outlive the palace of the Escurial, and the imperial eagle of Austria." T Tom Junes has bcen translated into most, if not all, the languages of Europe. Curiously * Coleridge's... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1848 - 1048 pages
...containing 1,116 pages, well printed upon excellent paper, and sold at the extremely moderate price of 16s. The successors of Charles V. may disdain their brethren...of the Escurial, and the imperial eagle of Austria. GIBBON. Johnson appears to have been particularly pleased with the character of the heroine of this... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1849 - 544 pages
...Hapsburg ; the former, the knights and sheriffs of Leicestershire, have slowly risen to the dignity of a peerage ; the latter, the emperors of Germany and...of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of Austria." This confident prophecy seems in the present year to be in the course of fulfilment. Fielding received... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1914 - 668 pages
...Hapsburg. The successors of Charles V. may disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance ol ' Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners,...of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria." Now if anything that is future and uncertain can yet be deemed imminent and certain, we may be assured... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1851 - 412 pages
...Hapsburg ; the former, the knights and sheriffs of Leicestershire, have slowly risen to the dignity of a peerage ; the latter, the emperors of Germany and...of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of Austria." This confident prophecy seems in the present year to be in the course of fulfilment. Fielding received... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 558 pages
...fidelity of a Hogarth." — Knoy'a E> 'a The romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manner' outlive the palace of the Escurial and the Imperial eagle of Austria,"— &<M'm. " ' Tom Jones ' is the ftrst romance in the world, and the best written r~t"-* book."— La... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...of the younger branch of the Earls of Denbigh, who drew their origin from the Counts of Hapsburgh. The successors of Charles V. may disdain their brethren...of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria." There can be no gainsaying the sentence of this great judge. To have your name mentioned by Gibbon,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...of the younger branch of the Earl's of Denbigh, who drew their origin from the Counts of Habsburg. The successors of Charles V. may disdain their brethren...of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria." There can be no gainsaying the sentence of this great judge. To have your name mentioned by Gibbon,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1854 - 306 pages
...of the younger branch of the Earls of Denbigh, who drew their origin from the Counts of Hapsburgh. The successors of Charles V. may disdain their brethren...of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria." There can be no gainsaying the sentence of this great judge. To have your name mentioned by Gibbon,... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - Canadian wit and humor - 1855 - 364 pages
...series of pictures drawn with all the dcschptlYa fidelity of a Hogarth."— Knox'a Eaaays. " 'I ho romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human...the Escurial and the imperial eagle of Austria."— 0-ibbon. " 'Tom Jones ' la the first romance In the world, and the best written English bf ok."—... | |
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