This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...upon the softer sex the task of wooing, which is more gracefully as well as naturally the province of the man." The characters have little novelty; Cumberland was indebted for them to Joseph Andrews, and he took the idea of his plan and style from Tom Jones. Henry is another version of Joseph himself, which Cumberland ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...upon the softer sex the task of wooing, which is more gracefully as well as naturally the province of the man." The characters have little novelty; Cumberland was indebted for them to Joseph Andrews, and he took the idea of his plan and style from Tom Jones. Henry is another version of Joseph himself, which Cumberland somehow seems not to have perceived to be a caricature created in the mere spirit of parody; but the portrait of an amiable, enthusiastic, and yet absurd Methodist parson in Ezekiel Daw, has an air of originality, even when placed beside that of Parson Adams, by which it was obviously suggested. The imitations of Smollett's manner were not numerous, and, with one exception, totally without merit. We allude to The Adventures of a Guinea, by Charles Johnstone, which appeared in 1761, in which a series of scenes and personages in different walks of life are brought before us through the somewhat inartificial method of making a coin, which shifts through the hands of successive proprietors, the historian of their follies and their vices; a contrivance very inferior indeed to the ingenious machinery by which Asmodeus unveils to Don Cleofas the secrets of Spanish life. In The Adventures of a Guinea, the author seems to have had before him both Le Sage and Smollett as models; but in the result he exhibits little of the gay good-humoured touch of the Frenchman, and nothing of the cordial merriment of the Scotchman. Where Le Sage painted follies, and Smollett frolics and absurdities, Johnstone, on whom some have conferred the high title of a prose Juvenal, delineated with a sarcastic and energetic brevity, the darkest vices and crimes of an age in which both political and domestic profligacy prevailed, and were paraded abroad with no ordinary degr...
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