Chapter X. In which Master Blifil and Jones appear in different lights.
BOOK IV
Chapter I. Containing five pages of paper.
Chapter II. A short hint of what we can do in the sublime, and a description of Miss Sophia Western.
Chapter III. Wherein the history goes back to commemorate a trifling incident that happened some years since; but which, trifling as it was, had some future consequences.
Chapter IV. Containing such very deep and grave matters, that some readers, perhaps, may not relish it.
Chapter V. Containing matter accommodated to every taste.
Chapter VI. An apology for the insensibility of Mr Jones to all the charms of the lovely Sophia; in which possibly we may, in a considerable degree, lower his character in the estimation of those men of wit and gallantry who approve the heroes in most of our modern comedies.
Chapter VII. Being the shortest chapter in this book.
Chapter VIII. A battle sung by the muse in the Homerican style, and which none but the classical reader can taste.
Chapter IX. Containing matter of no very peaceable colour.
Chapter X. A story told by Mr Supple, the curate. The penetration of Squire Western. His great love for his daughter, and the return to it made by her.
Chapter XI. The narrow escape of Molly Seagrim, with some observations for which we have been forced to dive pretty deep into nature.
Chapter XII. Containing much clearer matters; but which flowed from the same fountain with those in the preceding chapter.
Chapter XIII. A dreadful accident which befel Sophia. The gallant behaviour of Jones, and the more dreadful consequence of that behaviour to the young lady; with a short digression in favour of the female sex. —
Chapter XIV. The arrival of a surgeon.—His operations, and a long dialogue between Sophia and her maid.
BOOK V
Chapter I. Of the SERIOUS in writing, and for what purpose it is introduced.
Chapter II. In which Mr Jones receives many friendly visits during his confinement; with some fine touches of the passion of love, scarce visible to the naked eye.
Chapter III. Which all who have no heart will think to contain much ado about nothing.
Chapter IV. A little chapter, in which is contained a little incident.
Chapter V. A very long chapter, containing a very great incident.
Chapter VI. By comparing which with the former, the reader may possibly correct some abuse which he hath formerly been guilty of in the application of the word love.
Chapter VII. In which Mr Allworthy appears on a sick-bed.
Chapter VIII. Containing matter rather natural than pleasing.
Chapter IX. Which, among other things, may serve as a comment on that saying of Aeschines, that “drunkenness shows the mind of a man, as a mirrour reflects his person.”
Chapter X. Showing the truth of many observations of Ovid, and of other more grave writers, who have proved beyond contradiction, that wine is often the forerunner of incontinency.
Chapter XI. In which a simile in Mr Pope's period of a mile introduces as bloody a battle as can possibly be fought without the assistance of steel or cold iron.
Chapter XII. In which is seen a more moving spectacle than all the blood in the bodies of Thwackum and Blifil, and of twenty other such, is capable of producing.
BOOK VI
Chapter I. Of love.
Chapter II. The character of Mrs Western. Her great learning and knowledge of the world, and an instance of the deep penetration which she derived from those advantages.
Chapter III. Containing two defiances to the critics.
Chapter IV. Containing sundry curious matters.
Chapter V. In which is related what passed between Sophia and her aunt.
Chapter VI. Containing a dialogue between Sophia and Mrs Honour, which may a little relieve those tender affections which the foregoing scene may have raised in the mind of a good-natured reader.
Chapter VII. A picture of formal courtship in miniature, as it always ought to be drawn, and a scene of a tenderer kind painted at full length.
Chapter VIII. The meeting between Jones and Sophia.
Chapter IX. Being of a much more tempestuous kind than the former.
Chapter X. In which Mr Western visits Mr Allworthy.
Chapter XI. A short chapter; but
