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"Go forward" and "move forward" in English literature.

[edit] Jane Austen

Emma

"Do you imagine Colonel Campbell knows the business to be going forward just at at this time?"

Chapter 28.

Mansfield Park

Mr. Crawford was the first to move forward, to examine the capabilities of that end of the house.

Chapter 8.

"We will stay till this is finished, Fanny," said he, turning his back on the window; and as it advanced, she had the mortification of seeing him advance too, moving forward by gentle degrees towards the instrument, and when it ceased, he was close by the singers, among the most urgent in requesting to hear the glee again."

Chapter 11.

Pride and Prejudice

"Lydia has no brothers to step forward; and he might imagine, from my father's behavior, from his indolence and the little attention he has ever seemed to give to what was going forward in his family, that he would do as little and think as little about it, as any father could do, in such a matter."

Chapter 14.

[edit] Charles Dickens

Barnaby Rudge

Hugh motioned Barnaby not to come near him (though without looking in the direction where he stood) and answered, "There is nothing more."

"Move forward!"

"-- Unless," said Hugh glancing hurriedly back, "-- unless any person here has a fancy for a dog; and not then, unless he means to use him well."

Chapter 19.

[edit] George Eliot

Adam Bede

Chad and the rougher sort of workmen kept aloof from the grave under the white thorn, where the burial was going forward.

Chapter 18.

[edit] Henry Fielding

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling.

And as for the Lady, she had no sooner secured her lover, than she behaved to him before company with the highest degree of indifference; so that Mr. Allworthy must have had the insight of the devil (or perhaps some of his worse qualities) to have entertained the least suspicion of what was going forward.

Chapter 11.

[edit] Oliver Goldsmith

The Vicar of Wakefield

"I was now too far from home to think of returning, so I resolved to go forward."

Chapter 20.

[edit] William Shakespeare

As You Like It

"Do, young sir; your reputation shall not be misprised:

we will make it our suit to the Duke that the wrestling might not go forward." -- Rosalind.

Act I, Scene 2.

Coriolanus

"But when goes this forward?" -- First Servingman.

Act IV, Scene 5.

Henry VI, Part I

"Go forward, and be choked with thy ambition!

And so farewell until I meet thee next." -- Earl of Suffolk.

Act II, Scene 4.

Henry VI, Part II

"But angry, wrathful, and inclined to blood,

If you go forward; therefore yield, or die." -- William Stafford.

Act IV, Scene 2.

Henry VI, Part III

"If that go forward, Henry's hope is done." -- Queen Margaret.

Act III, Scene 3.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Masters, the duke is coming from the temple, and there is two or three lords and ladies more married:

if our sport had gone forward, we had all been made men." -- Snug.

Act IV, Scene 2.

Romeo and Juliet

"Can I go forward when my heart is here?

Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out." -- Romeo.

Act II, Scene 1.

The Taming of the Shrew

"Gramercies, lad. Go forward; this contents;

The rest will comfort, for thy counsel's sound." -- Lucentio.

Act I, Scene 1.

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