Clarissa Harlowe: Or, The History of a Young Lady, Volume 3

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Chapman & Hall ld., 1902 - 304 pagina's
 

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Pagina 224 - My father, in the first agitations of his mind, on discovering your wicked, your shameful elopement, imprecated on his knees a fearful curse upon you. Tremble at the recital of it! No less, than 'that you may meet your punishment both here and hereafter, by means of the very wretch in whom you have chosen to place your wicked confidence.
Pagina 101 - Habitual evils change not on a sudden : But many days must pass, and many sorrows : Conscious remorse and anguish must be felt, To curb desire, to break the stubborn will, And work a second nature in the soul...
Pagina 146 - There was, I believe, a kind of phrensy in my manner, which threw her into a panic, like that of Semele perhaps, when the Thunderer, in all his majesty, surrounded with ten thousand celestial burning-glasses, was about to scorch her into a cinder.
Pagina 237 - The wise and active conquer difficulties, By daring to attempt them. Sloth and folly Shiver and shrink at sight of toil and hazard, And make th

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