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... kind . It is still more improbable that the obscure printer of The True Briton , with which , moreover , he prudently severed his connection at the above - mentioned sixth number , could ever have been on really intimate terms with the ...
... kind . It is still more improbable that the obscure printer of The True Briton , with which , moreover , he prudently severed his connection at the above - mentioned sixth number , could ever have been on really intimate terms with the ...
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... kind [ as ] to recommend me to the ingenious Mr. Richardson , in Salisbury Court ; with whom I staid to finish his part of the Dictionary which he had from the booksellers , com- posed of English , Latin , Greek , and Hebrew . " But ...
... kind [ as ] to recommend me to the ingenious Mr. Richardson , in Salisbury Court ; with whom I staid to finish his part of the Dictionary which he had from the booksellers , com- posed of English , Latin , Greek , and Hebrew . " But ...
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... Kind of Servility . In the first Place , the Company will be in a manner obliged to keep , will be such as you will tend little to the Improvement of your Mind , or Amendment of your Morals : To the Master of the Com- pany you list in ...
... Kind of Servility . In the first Place , the Company will be in a manner obliged to keep , will be such as you will tend little to the Improvement of your Mind , or Amendment of your Morals : To the Master of the Com- pany you list in ...
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... kind Gentleman , ” the " dear Master , " who , having failed to ruin her , has , to gain his sensual ends , raised her by marriage to his own rank , produces a most unpleasant effect . But after all , it is Richardson himself who is ...
... kind Gentleman , ” the " dear Master , " who , having failed to ruin her , has , to gain his sensual ends , raised her by marriage to his own rank , produces a most unpleasant effect . But after all , it is Richardson himself who is ...
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... of a modern , would have been as pretty as a background by Mr. Marcus Stone . But Pamela has little description of any kind , the exception being that the author , like many another feminine man 36 [ CHAP . SAMUEL RICHARDSON.
... of a modern , would have been as pretty as a background by Mr. Marcus Stone . But Pamela has little description of any kind , the exception being that the author , like many another feminine man 36 [ CHAP . SAMUEL RICHARDSON.
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Page 5 - Half a dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them ; their mothers sometimes with them ; and bolh mothers and daughters used to be pleased with the observations they put me upon making.
Page 118 - ... 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...
Page 29 - ... by all manner of temptations and devices, to seduce her. That she had recourse to as many innocent stratagems to escape the snares laid for her virtue; once, however, in despair, having been near drowning; that, at last, her noble resistance, watchfulness, and excellent qualities, subdued him, and he thought fit to make her his wife.
Page 118 - ... 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...
Page 155 - ... 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 felt for him ; we had not seen one another enough to love (as if love must have more time than friendship!). This was sincerely my meaning, and I had this meaning till Klopstock...
Page 183 - AW WARD. COLERIDGE. By HD TRAILL. COWPER. By GOLDWIN SMITH. DEFOE. By W. MINTO. DE QUINCEY. By Prof. MASSON. DICKENS. By Sir AW WARD.
Page 90 - Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself.
Page 73 - ... place, afraid of being seen as a thief of detection. The people of fashion, if he happen to cross a walk, (which he always does with precipitation), unsmiling their faces, as if they thought him in the way...
Page 107 - I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging-house, we should have thought him a genius, and wished he had had the advantage of a liberal education, and of being admitted into good company; but it is beyond my conception, that a man of family, and who had some learning, and who really is a writer, should descend so excessively low, in all his pieces. Who can care for any of his people? A person of honour asked me, the other day, what he could mean, by saying, in his Covent Garden Journal,...
Page 100 - What a knowledge of the human heart ! Well might a critical judge of writing say, as he did to me, that your late brother's knowledge of it was not (fine writer as he was) comparable to your's. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clock-work machine, while your's was that of all the finer springs and movements of the inside.