The Works of Samuel Richardson: The history of Clarissa Harlowe

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H. Sotheran & Company, 1883

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Pagina 85 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Pagina 80 - For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
Pagina 514 - King Lear is an admirable tragedy of the same kind, as Shakspeare wrote it ; but as it is reformed according to the chimerical notion of poetical justice, in my humble opinion it has lost half its beauty. At the same time I must allow, that there are very noble tragedies, which have been framed upon the other plan, and have ended happily ; as indeed most of the good tragedies, which have been...
Pagina 59 - Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.
Pagina 519 - When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me, Until I went into the sanctuary of God ; then understood I their end.
Pagina 60 - Before I go whence I shall not return,, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death ; 22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Pagina 519 - Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
Pagina 517 - To know the Poet from the Man of rhymes : 'Tis he, who gives my breast a thousand pains, Can make me feel each Passion that he feigns ; Enrage, compose, with more than magic Art, With Pity, and with Terror, tear my heart; And snatch me, o'er the earth, or thro' the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where.
Pagina 519 - For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men ; neither are they plagued like other men.
Pagina 392 - His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

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