The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson ...: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings, Volume 1R. Phillips, 1804 - 326 pagina's |
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Pagina x
... genius have more distinguished themselves , or in which virtuous and noble sentiments have come out with greater lustre , than in the splen- did fictions , or pathetic tales , with which France , Germany , Switzerland , and our own ...
... genius have more distinguished themselves , or in which virtuous and noble sentiments have come out with greater lustre , than in the splen- did fictions , or pathetic tales , with which France , Germany , Switzerland , and our own ...
Pagina xx
... genius De Foe ; and if from any one Richardson caught , in some measure , his peculiar manner of writing , to him it must be traced , whose Robinson Crusoe and Family Instructor ( the latter consisting of domestic dialogues , ) he must ...
... genius De Foe ; and if from any one Richardson caught , in some measure , his peculiar manner of writing , to him it must be traced , whose Robinson Crusoe and Family Instructor ( the latter consisting of domestic dialogues , ) he must ...
Pagina xxviii
... some of his surviving cotemporaries , or from printed biographical anecdotes . Mr. Samuel Richardson , whose name and genius no English readers , and it may be added , added , few foreign ones , are unacquainted with , xxviii THE LIFE.
... some of his surviving cotemporaries , or from printed biographical anecdotes . Mr. Samuel Richardson , whose name and genius no English readers , and it may be added , added , few foreign ones , are unacquainted with , xxviii THE LIFE.
Pagina xxxi
... genius which could break through so thick a cloud . But , in truth , the candour and openness with which he relates the circumstances of his early life , ought to clear him from this imputa- b 4 tion , tion . He goes on to inform his ...
... genius which could break through so thick a cloud . But , in truth , the candour and openness with which he relates the circumstances of his early life , ought to clear him from this imputa- b 4 tion , tion . He goes on to inform his ...
Pagina xxxiv
... genius in a congenial mind . Reading , provided a man seeks rather after good books than new books , still continues to be the cheapest of all amusements ; and the boy who has barely learned to read at a village school - dame's , is in ...
... genius in a congenial mind . Reading , provided a man seeks rather after good books than new books , still continues to be the cheapest of all amusements ; and the boy who has barely learned to read at a village school - dame's , is in ...
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Pagina xxxix - As a bashful and not forward boy, I was an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood. Half a dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them ; their mothers sometimes with them ; and both mothers and daughters used to be pleased with the observations they put me upon making.
Pagina lxxiv - ... 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 tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue. I therefore gave way to enlargement: and so Pamela became as you see her.
Pagina cii - The real moral of Clarissa is, that virtue is triumphant in every situation ; that in circumstances the most painful and degrading, in a prison, in a brothel, in grief, in distraction, in despair, it is still lovely, still commanding, still the object of our veneration...
Pagina liii - Osborne,] entreated' in« to write for them a little volume of Letters in a common style, on such subjects as might be of use to those country readers who were unable to indite for themselves.
Pagina lxix - ... and particularly he asked who was the owner of a fine house, as it seemed to him, beautifully situated, which he had passed by (describing it) within a mile or two of the inn.
Pagina lxv - Which can with a resistless charm impart The loosest wishes to the chastest heart; Raise such a conflict, kindle such a fire Between declining virtue and desire, Till the poor vanquish'd maid dissolves away In dreams all night, in sighs and tears all day.
Pagina xl - I have been directed to chide, and even repulse, when an offence was either taken or given, at the very time that the heart of the chider or repulser was open before me, overflowing with esteem and affection ; and the fair repulser, dreading to be taken at her word, directing this word, or that expression, to be softened or changed. One highly gratified with her lover's...
Pagina xlii - ... and, being engaged in a correspondence with a gentleman, greatly my superior in degree, and of ample fortune, who, had he lived, intended high things for me; those were all the opportunities I had in my apprenticeship to carry it on. But this little incident I may mention ; I took care that even my candle was of my own purchasing, that I might not, in the most trifling instance, make my master a sufferer...
Pagina lxxi - That the girl, improving daily in beauty, modesty, and genteel and good behaviour, by the time she was fifteen, engaged the attention of her lady's son, a young gentleman of free principles, who, on her lady's death, attempted, by all manner of temptations and devices, to seduce her. That she had recourse to as many innocent stratagems to escape the snares laid for her virtue...
Pagina xxx - ... for him having on the Duke's attempt on the crown, subjected him to be looked upon with a jealous eye, notwithstanding he was noted for a quiet and inoffensive man, he thought proper, on the decollation of the first-named unhappy nobleman, to quit his London business, and to retire to Derbyshire, though to his great detriment; and there I, and three other children out of nine, were born.