...natural manner, suitably to the simplicity of it, might possibly introduce a new species of writing, that might possibly turn young people into a course of...tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue. I therefore gave way to enlargement and so Pamela became as you see her. But so little did I hope for...

...natural manner, suitably to the simplicity of it, might possibly introduce a new species of writing, that might possibly turn young people into a course of...tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue." ' His wife, with a young lady friend who lived witKThem, grew interested in the book during its progress,...

...letters on the useful concerns of common life which his friends, the booksellers, had wished — he might possibly turn young people into a course of reading "different from the pomp and parade of romance writing, and dismissing the improbable and the marvelous, with which novels generally abound,...

..."different from the pomp and parade of romance writing, and dismissing the improbable and the marvelous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue." " To promote the cause of relif . , „ , , Fielding. gion and virtue was somewhat ostentatiously announced...

...moral purpose of his book, saying that he thinks it might " introduce a new species of writing that might possibly turn young people into a course of...different from the pomp and parade of romancewriting, and . . . promote the cause of religion and virtue;" and in the preface to the continuation beforementioned...

...moral purpose of his book, saying that he thinks it might "introduce a new species of writing that might possibly turn young people into a course of...different from the pomp and parade of romance-writing, and . . . promote the cause of religion and virtue;" and in the preface to the continuation before-mentioned...

...natural manner, suitably to the simplicity of it, might possibly introduce a new species of writing that might possibly turn young people into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romance writing, and dismissing the improbable and marvellous with which novels generally abound, might...

...natural manner, suitable to the simplicity of it, might possibly introduce a new species of writing, that might possibly turn young people into a course of...marvellous with which novels generally abound, might promote the cause of religion and virtue." Pamela was published anonymously in 1740, and was received...

...his successors continued to use it. Pamela was commenced solely as a moral tract in the hope that it "might possibly turn young people into a course of...dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which fiction generally abounds, might tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue." In another place...

...successors continued to use it. Pamela wa^ .'commenced solely as a moral tract in the hope that it r might possibly turn young people into a course of...different from the pomp and parade of romance-writing, , dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with wb',^ fiction generally abounds, might tencLto promote...