The Novels of Samuel Richardson, Esq: Viz. Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe, and Sir Charles Grandison in Three Volumes, to which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Life of the Author, Volumen 1Hurst, Robinson, 1824 |
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... wife to this hour and as to the second , when I assure you that I can do so without derogating from the merits of , or being disallowed by , my pre- sent , who speaks of her , on all occasions , as respectfully and affection- ately as I ...
... wife to this hour and as to the second , when I assure you that I can do so without derogating from the merits of , or being disallowed by , my pre- sent , who speaks of her , on all occasions , as respectfully and affection- ately as I ...
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... wife of Edward Bridgen , Esq .; and Sarah married Mr Crowther , surgeon , in Boswell's Court . Anne , a woman of a most ami- able disposition , but whose weak health had often alarmed the affec- tion of her parents , survived ...
... wife of Edward Bridgen , Esq .; and Sarah married Mr Crowther , surgeon , in Boswell's Court . Anne , a woman of a most ami- able disposition , but whose weak health had often alarmed the affec- tion of her parents , survived ...
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... wife of Sir Roger Bradshaigh , of Haigh , in Lancashire , whose very considerable talent , and ardent taste for literature , had to contend with the prejudices , which in those days seem to have rendered it ridiculous for a lady of rank ...
... wife of Sir Roger Bradshaigh , of Haigh , in Lancashire , whose very considerable talent , and ardent taste for literature , had to contend with the prejudices , which in those days seem to have rendered it ridiculous for a lady of rank ...
Página xiii
... wife of a country gentleman of estate and consideration , to enter into correspondence with a professed author . To gratify the strong propensity she felt to engage in literary inter- course with an author of Richardson's distinction ...
... wife of a country gentleman of estate and consideration , to enter into correspondence with a professed author . To gratify the strong propensity she felt to engage in literary inter- course with an author of Richardson's distinction ...
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... wife plain needle - work to girls , and to knit and spin ; but that it answered not : and , when the lady took their child , the industrious man earned his bread by day labour , and the lowest kind of husbandry . " That the girl ...
... wife plain needle - work to girls , and to knit and spin ; but that it answered not : and , when the lady took their child , the industrious man earned his bread by day labour , and the lowest kind of husbandry . " That the girl ...
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Página 374 - And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
Página 466 - Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain; And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room, Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing; But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind, Works all her folly up, and casts it outward To the world's open view...
Página iii - I have been directed to chide, and even repulse, when an offence was either taken or given, at the very time that the heart of the chider or repulser was open before me, overflowing with esteem and affection, and the fair repulser, dreading to be taken at her word, directing this word, or that expression, to be softened or changed. One, highly gratified with her lover's fervour and vows of everlasting love, has said, when I have asked her direction, ' I cannot tell you what to write ; but (her heart...
Página xliii - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Página 148 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Página xli - O'er Rome and o'er the nations spread. FRANCIS. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater favours, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue.
Página xiv - ... approaches a lady, his eye is never fixed first upon her face, but upon her feet, and thence he raises it up pretty quickly for a dull eye; and one would think (if we thought him at all worthy of observation) that from her air, and (the last beheld) her face, he sets her down in his mind as so or so, and then passes on to the next object he meets; only then looking back if he greatly likes or dislikes, as if he would see if the lady appear to be all of a piece, in the one light or in the other.
Página xl - It was in the power of Richardson alone to teach us at once esteem and detestation, to make virtuous resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit, and elegance, and courage., naturally excite; and to lose at last the hero in the villain.
Página xlii - In comparing those two writers, he used this expression ; " that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate.
Página xiii - ... from the head: by chance lively; very lively it will be, if he have hope of seeing a lady whom he loves and honours: his eye always on the ladies...