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" Jones [she wrote] ; he is no doubt an imperfect, but not a detestable character, with all that honesty, good nature, and generosity of temper. Though nobody can admire Clarissa more than I do, yet with all our partiality, I am afraid, it must be confessed... "
A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot ... - Page 313
by Elizabeth Carter - 1809
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Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions ..., Volumes 7-8

Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1808 - 918 pages
...Clarissa. FROM A LETTER TO MISS TALBOT. " I am sorrry to find you so outrageous about poor Tom Jones j he is no doubt an imperfect, but not a detestable...temper. Though nobody can admire Clarissa more than I do j yet with all our partiality, I • " Mrs. Martha Blount, to whom Pope left great part of hij fortune....
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 710 pages
...Clttrisit. [Prom a letter to Mis* Talbot.j " I am sorry to find you so outrag:ous about poor Tom Jones : hi' is no doubt an imperfect, but not a detestable character,...goodnature, and generosity of temper- Though nobody can adipjre 'Clarissa more than I do ; yet with all pur partiality, I arn afraid, •}t must be confessed,...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 702 pages
...letter to Mirt Tarbof-I " I am sorry to find you so W« ragcous about poor Tom. Jews: fcr fe» i» DO doubt an imperfect, but not a detestable' character,...goodnature, and generosity of temper. Though nobody can adir ire Clarissa more than I do ¡ yet with all our partiality, I am afraid, it must be confessed,...
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Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of ..., Volume 10

Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1815 - 600 pages
...meanings that the author never thought of.", t Tom Jones and Clarissa. FROM A LETTER TO HISS TALBOT. " I am sorry to find you so outrageous about poor Tom Jones ; he is no doubt an imperfect, but not a * " Mrs. Martha Blount, to whom Pope left great part of his fortune. A more just piece of criticism,...
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A History of English Prose Fiction

Bayard Tuckerman - Fiction - 1882 - 348 pages
...a bad one, and humor that it is impossible not to laugh at." " I am sorry," replied Miss Carter, " to find you so outrageous about poor Tom Jones; he...with all that honesty, good-nature, and generosity." Miss Talbot, in a later letter, said that she had once heard a lady piously say to her son that she...
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English Fiction from the Fifth to the Twentieth Century

Carl Holliday - English fiction - 1912 - 476 pages
...church, but that is all." The "learned" Miss Carter, 8 of his own day, had a more charitable view: "He is no doubt an imperfect, but not a detestable character, with all that honesty, good nature and generosity." It is indeed a triumph of art that after Tom's numerous shameful fallings...
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Fielding the Novelist: A Study in Historical Criticism

Frederic Thomas Blanchard - 1926 - 710 pages
...fact, an answer to the attack on Fielding's hero (just now quoted) made by her friend Miss Talbot. "I am sorry to find you so outrageous about poor Tom Jones," runs her letter of June 20, 1 749, "he is no doubt an imperfect, but not a detestable character, with...
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