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, Volume 1Hurst, Robinson, 1824 |
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... talk too stiffly complimentary , too like a print- ed book , to use a Scottish phrase , to permit us to associate the ideas of gentlemanlike ease and affability , either to the one or the other . We believe this objection has been very ...
... talk too stiffly complimentary , too like a print- ed book , to use a Scottish phrase , to permit us to associate the ideas of gentlemanlike ease and affability , either to the one or the other . We believe this objection has been very ...
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... talk with Mrs Jewkes ; but said not a word of the back - door key , " & c . Her reply , expressing her great ... Talks filthily to her , and ridicules her notions of virtue , Thursday . Apprehends , from some particular dispositions ...
... talk with Mrs Jewkes ; but said not a word of the back - door key , " & c . Her reply , expressing her great ... Talks filthily to her , and ridicules her notions of virtue , Thursday . Apprehends , from some particular dispositions ...
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... talk of low scenes would desire should be understood by the epithet ! -Nothing , properly speaking , is low , that suits well with the place it is raised to . The passions of nature are the same in the lord and his coachman . All that ...
... talk of low scenes would desire should be understood by the epithet ! -Nothing , properly speaking , is low , that suits well with the place it is raised to . The passions of nature are the same in the lord and his coachman . All that ...
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... talking of me , she told him she thought me the prettiest wench she ever saw in her life ; and that I was too pretty to ... talk ; you are both so sensible , and so honest , that he always learns something from you to the purpose . is a ...
... talking of me , she told him she thought me the prettiest wench she ever saw in her life ; and that I was too pretty to ... talk ; you are both so sensible , and so honest , that he always learns something from you to the purpose . is a ...
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... talk with Mrs Jervis soon after , and mostly about me . He said to her , it seems , Well , Mrs Jervis , I know Pamela has your good word ; but do you think her of any use in the family ? She told me she was surprised at the question ...
... talk with Mrs Jervis soon after , and mostly about me . He said to her , it seems , Well , Mrs Jervis , I know Pamela has your good word ; but do you think her of any use in the family ? She told me she was surprised at the question ...
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Andromache answer Bedfordshire behaviour believe bless Bradshaigh brother cern chariot charming child closet Countess creature daugh daughter dear father dear parents dear sir dearest delight deserve distress divine grace doubt duty excuse expect eyes father and mother favour fear forgive gentleman girl give glad hand happy hear heart honest honour hope husband innocent Jervis Jewkes kind Lady Davers lady's ladyship letter libertine Lincolnshire live Longman look Lord Davers madam marriage married master mind Miss Darnford ness never obliged occasion Pamela passion person Platonic love pleased pleasure Polly polygamy poor pray pretty pride Pyrrhus racter reason sake servants shew Sir Charles Grandison Sir Jacob Sir Simon sister spects stept sure sweet talk tell thee ther thing thou thought tion told took Tunbridge virtue wicked wife Williams wish woman word worthy write young
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...