Works of Samuel Richardson: The history of Clarissa Harlowe

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H. Sotheran, 1883
 

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Pagina 245 - to do some good by way of atonement; and as I believe I am a pretty deal ' indebted on that score ; I intend to join a hundred pounds to Johnny's ' aunt's hundred pounds, to make one innocent couple happy.'—Besides which motive, he had a further view to answer in that instance of his generosity ; as may be
Pagina 348 - world! Now I own that Hampstead Heath affords very pretty and very extensive prospects; but 'tis not the wide world neither. And suppose that to be her grievance, I hope soon to restore her to a narrower. I am the enemy of her soul, as well as of her honour !— Confoundedly severe! Nevertheless, another fib!—For
Pagina 417 - knows them, yet has ardours for them, to borrow a word from Miss Howe,* though those ardours are generally owing more to the devil within him, than to the witch without him, is the man who makes them the highest and most grateful compliment. He knows what to expect, and with what to
Pagina 175 - now ; and if I had went first, she would by this time have known mine. There is great wisdom in that saying, God send me a friend, that may tell me of my faults: if not, an enemy, and he will. Not that I am your enemy; and that you well know. The more
Pagina 370 - you have an uncommon scene before you. The lady is my wife, and no gentleman's presence is necessary here but my own. I beg pardon, sir; if the lady be your wife, I have no business here. But, sir, by her concern at seeing you Pray, sir, none of your ifs and
Pagina 36 - be the bad, which now you will never tell me of?— What worse, then renounce me ! and for ever! ' My uncle, ; you say, believes me ruined: he declares that he can ' believe everything bad of a creature who could run away with a man : and they have all made a resolution not to
Pagina 331 - finished the settlements: that two draughts of them have been made; one avowedly to be sent to one Captain Tomlinson, as the clerk says :—and I find that a license has actually been more than once endeavoured to be obtained; and that difficulties have hitherto been made, equally to Lovelace's vexation and
Pagina 56 - must be lost. Love is an encroacher, says he : love never goes backward. Nothing but the highest act of love can satisfy an indulged love. But the reader perhaps is too apt to form a judgment of Clarissa's conduct in critical cases by Lovelace's complaints of her
Pagina 489 - urged. The Captain seconded me with equal earnestness. At last, each fell down on our knees before her. She was distressed. I was afraid at one time she would have fainted. Yet neither of us would rise without some concessions. I pleaded my own sake; the Captain, his dear friend, her uncle's; and
Pagina 244 - I am afraid, my dear, that there must have been some fault in his education. His natural bias was not, I fancy, sufficiently attended to. He was instructed perhaps (as his power was likely to be large) to do good and beneficent actions; but not, I doubt, from proper motives.

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