The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.

All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.

Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.