Henry, Volym 4

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A.K. Newman, 1825
 

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Sida 200 - More attractive than this counterblast to Tom Jones is Ezekiel Daw, the Methodist preacher, of close kin to Parson Adams, whose enthusiastic language is well kept up, and who is the best example of Cumberland's aim of " endearing man to man, by bringing characters under review, which prejudice has kept at a distance from the mass of society.
Sida 8 - Cumberland has some uneasy defences of the dubious passages in Henry: 'What I have written,' he says, 'I have written in the hope of recommending virtue by the fiction of a virtuous character, which, to render amiable, I made natural, and to render natural, I made subject to temptations, though resolute in withstanding them.
Sida 3 - The simple goose-quill, that can fan one spark of pure benevolence into activity by the playfulness of its motion, has done more for mankind than the full-plumed philosopher...

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