...disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of humorous manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial Eagle of Austria.' " — Thackeray's English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. Fielding's first wife was Miss Craddock,...

...geleiten 2). Für „Tom Jones" zitiert Thackeray Gibbons Urteil : „That exquisite picture of humour and manners will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria". Er selbst urteilt, der Roman sei als Sittengemälde ausgezeichnet, in seinem Aufbau ein wahres Wunder:...

...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...

...majority of us will not be afraid to join ourselves to the stately Gibbon in his sententious prophecy: "The romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture...of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria." Probably Tom Jones can claim a larger and more imposing consensus of opinion that it is the greatest...

...comment in the novels whose " exquisite picture of human manners " caused Gibbon to say that they would outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of Austria. From the Hapsburg Counts, afterwards the Austrian Emperors, the Fielding family drew its descent. His...

...Waldeck-Pyrmont, and the other is the tomb of Fielding, of whom Gibbon says, "Our immortal Fielding, whose work will outlive the Palace of the Escurial and the Imperial eagle of Austria." Fielding came to Lisbon in search of health, and died there on the 8th of October 1 754. The original...

...still uncut ; then rows of the Gentleman's Magazine, Blackwood, and the Quarterlies; the romances which "will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the House of Austria, " and those of Lady Morgan and Mrs. Aphra Behn; the singers who filled with melody...

...preferring Joseph Andrews to that other novel which, in Gibbon's stately panegyric, was destined to " outlive the palace of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria " ? When Byron came back from his first foreign tour, he brought with him the manuscript of Hints from...

...inferior to Shakespeare." Gibbon, the great historian, a man not given to fulsome eulogy, declared : "The successors of Charles V may disdain their brethren...of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria." It has. The Escurial was partly destroyed by fire in 1872. The Imperial Eagle of Austria was cast into...

...his essays Gibbon prophesied that " the romance of Tom Jones — that exquisite picture of humour and manners — will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of Austria." When one recollects that the English historian was the contemporary of the great Austrian Empress Maria...