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Page xii
... give them copies to write after , or correct , for answers to their lover's letters : nor did any one of them know that I was the secretary to the others . I have been directed to chide , and even repulse , when an offence was either ...
... give them copies to write after , or correct , for answers to their lover's letters : nor did any one of them know that I was the secretary to the others . I have been directed to chide , and even repulse , when an offence was either ...
Page xx
... gives a picture by which she is to recognise him in the Park . " Short ; rather plump than emaciated *** about five ... give . He was not a ladies ' man , though he knew them well , anymore than he was a man - of - the - town , though ...
... gives a picture by which she is to recognise him in the Park . " Short ; rather plump than emaciated *** about five ... give . He was not a ladies ' man , though he knew them well , anymore than he was a man - of - the - town , though ...
Page xlvii
... give them a little book ( which , they said , they were often asked after ) of familiar letters on the useful concerns in common life ; and , at last , I yielded to their importunity , and began to recollect such subjects as i thought ...
... give them a little book ( which , they said , they were often asked after ) of familiar letters on the useful concerns in common life ; and , at last , I yielded to their importunity , and began to recollect such subjects as i thought ...
Page xlviii
... give me prefaces for it , but which were much too long and circumstantial , as I thought , made me resolve myself on writing a preface : I , therefore , spirited by the good opinion of these four , and knowing that the judgments of nine ...
... give me prefaces for it , but which were much too long and circumstantial , as I thought , made me resolve myself on writing a preface : I , therefore , spirited by the good opinion of these four , and knowing that the judgments of nine ...
Page xlix
... give an illustration of the keen joy with which the happy dénouement was greeted . " At Slough , near Windsor , the inhabitants used to gather around the village forge while the blacksmith read the story aloud . As soon as he came to ...
... give an illustration of the keen joy with which the happy dénouement was greeted . " At Slough , near Windsor , the inhabitants used to gather around the village forge while the blacksmith read the story aloud . As soon as he came to ...
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Page xliv - Letters written to and for particular Friends, on the most important Occasions. Directing not only the requisite Style and Forms to be observed in writing Familiar Letters; but how to think and act justly and prudently, in the common Concerns of Human Life.
Page xx - ... eye, too often over-clouded by mistinesses 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 ; if they have very large hoops, he looks down and supercilious, and as if he would be thought wise, but perhaps the sillier for that: as he 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...
Page xxxv - 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.
Page xliii - Everywhere I see in the world the intellect of man, That sword, the energy his subtle spear, The knowledge which defends him like a shield — Everywhere; but they make not up, I think, The marvel of a soul like thine, earth's flower She holds up to the softened gaze of God!
Page xli - After having seen him two hours, I was obliged to pass the evening in a company which never had been so wearisome to me. I could not speak ; I could not play ; I thought, I saw nothing but Klopstock. I saw him the next day and the following, and we were very seriously friends.
Page xxiv - Consider, if this wounds both Mr. Gibber and me (who neither of us set up for immaculate chastity), what must it do with those who possess that inestimable treasure?
Page xli - It was a strong hour the hour of his departure ! He wrote soon after, and from that time our correspondence began to be a very diligent one. I sincerely believed my love to be friendship. I spoke with my friends of nothing but Klopstock, and showed his letters. They rallied at me, and said I was in love. I rallied them again, and said that they must have a very friendshipless heart, if they had no idea of friendship to a man as well as to a woman.
Page xx - Short ; rather plump than emaciated, notwithstanding his complaints ; about five foot five inches ; fair wig ; lightish cloth coat, all black besides ; one hand generally in his bosom, the other a cane in it, which he leans upon under the skirts of his coat usually, that it may imperceptibly serve him as a support, when attacked by sudden tremors or startings, and dizziness...
Page xli - ... a very friendshipless heart, if they had no idea of friendship to a man as well as to a woman. Thus it continued eight months, in which time my friends found as much love in Klopstock's letters as in me. I perceived it likewise, but I would not believe it. At the last Klopstock said plainly that he loved; and I startled as for a wrong thing; I answered that it was no love, but friendship, as it was what I...
Page xlii - If you knew my husband, you would not wonder. If you knew his poem, I could describe him very briefly, in saying he is in all respects what he is as a poet. This I can say with all wifely modesty But I dare not to speak of my husband; I am all raptures when I do it. And as happy as I am in love, so happy am I in friendship, in my mother, two elder sisters, and five other women. How rich I am!