The Novels of Samuel Richardson: Complete and Unabridged ...W. Heinemann, 1902 |
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The Novels of Samuel Richardson: Complete and Unabridged ... Samuel Richardson Volledige weergave - 1902 |
The Novels of Samuel Richardson: Complete and Unabridged ... Samuel Richardson Volledige weergave - 1902 |
The Novels of Samuel Richardson: Complete and Unabridged ... Samuel Richardson Volledige weergave - 1902 |
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Pagina xv - 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.
Pagina 105 - I do not like thee, Dr. Fell; The reason why, I cannot tell But I don't like thee, Dr. Fell ell— I II.
Pagina x - I FIRST adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despite. I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist.
Pagina xxxix - ... account of the juvenile years of the principal person is narratively given in some of the letters. As many, however, as could be spared, have been omitted. There is not one episode...
Pagina 85 - And take all lives of things from you; The world depend upon your eye, And when you frown upon it, die: Only our loves shall still survive, New worlds and natures to outlive, And, like to heralds...
Pagina xxxi - Clementina, though a little too fully elaborated, is deeply affecting. In a time when the authority of the classics was greater than it is to-day, Thomas Warton said, " I know not whether even the madness of Lear is wrought up and expressed by so many little strokes of nature and passion. It is absolute pedantry to prefer and compare the madness of Orestes, in Euripides, to this of Clementina.
Pagina xi - ... cheap postage, have quite destroyed that once fine art. Richardson knew also the value of the epistolary method for soul-revelation. The minds and hearts of all his "prominent characters were to be laid absolutely bare before the reader, and there is no instrument like a confidential letter for this process of vivisection. We do not need the authority of Schopenhauer to be told] that a letter is the surest key to the writer's personality ; for in a long letter it is more difficult to conceal...
Pagina 86 - Quoth he, My faith, as adamantine, As chains of destiny, I'll maintain ; True as Apollo ever spoke, Or oracle from heart of oak ; And if you'll give my flame but vent, Now in close hugger-mugger pent, And shine upon me but benignly, With that one, and that other pigsney...
Pagina xxiii - I own that a good woman is my favourite character; and that I can do twenty agreeable things for her, none of which would appear in a striking light in a man. Softness of heart, gentleness of manners, tears, beauty, will allow of pathetic scenes in the story of the one, which cannot have place in that of the other.
Pagina xxiii - ... world, as some employments give opportunities to do ; naturally shy and sheepish, and wanting more encouragement by smiles, to draw him out, than any body thought it worth their while to give him ; and blest, (in this he will say blest), with a mind that set him above a sought-for dependence, and making an absolute reliance on Providence and his own endeavours. How, I say, shall such a man pretend to describe and enter into characters in upper life ? How shall such a one draw scenes of busy and...