Pictures from English literature . Sophia believes to beBlifil, while Jones is really meant—till at last he relates the newly-discoveredrelationship. Sophia declares she will never receive him as one who is to beher husband, for she has good reason to be deeply displeased with squire is as anxious to have him for his son-in-law as he was beforeto have Blifil. He bursts in, and betrays his usual violence, upbraiding hisdaughter for not doing what he had so often protested she should never better advocate there is, however, to plead Toms cause with his mistress,and that is Tom himse
Pictures from English literature . Sophia believes to beBlifil, while Jones is really meant—till at last he relates the newly-discoveredrelationship. Sophia declares she will never receive him as one who is to beher husband, for she has good reason to be deeply displeased with squire is as anxious to have him for his son-in-law as he was beforeto have Blifil. He bursts in, and betrays his usual violence, upbraiding hisdaughter for not doing what he had so often protested she should never better advocate there is, however, to plead Toms cause with his mistress,and that is Tom himself. He appeases her anger, removes her distrust, allaysall her fears, and gains her consent to their union. And so they are have a glimpse of the couple in after-life, when the squire has given upthe family mansion to them, but visits them constantly, having a parlour andante-chamber to himself, where he gets drunk with whom he pleases ; and hisdaughter is still as ready as ever to play to him whenever he desires THE SHANDIES. We know of no English author, the perusal of whose works brings moremingled feelings than Laurence Sternes. Delight and disgust, admiration andsorrow, the blush of outraged modesty and the throb of excited sensibility,are alternately called forth ; and the final sentiment that remains on themind is the wish that we could expunge from our literature more than one-half of what he has written. A very necromancer of language, he uses thespirit-words which he evokes obedient to his will, now as the ministers ofprurient fancies and ribald equivoques, now to convulse us with laughter atsome pleasant, harmless humour, or stir the deepest feelings of our natureat the tale of sorrow—uttering words of wisdom with a carelessness that looksalmost like levity, and dealing with the virtues, the vices, the foibles of humannature as freely as the anatomist does with the human body. Of the produc-tions which he has left, the best and the worst is The Li
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