Clarissa: Or, The History of a Young Lady Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life; and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage, Volume 4B. Tauchnitz, 1863 |
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Pagina 485 - delivered him out of his troubles, or made him triumph over his enemies. "This error they have been led into by a ridiculous doctrine in modern criticism, that they are obliged to an equal distribution of rewards and punishments, and an impartial execution of poetical justice. "Who were the first that established this rule, I know not ; but
Pagina 485 - When we see him engaged in the depth of his afflictions, we are apt to comfort ourselves, because we are sure he will find his way out of them, and that his grief how great soever it may be, at present, will soon terminate in gladness. "For this reason, the ancient writers of tragedy treated
Pagina 222 - plate and the lily : The days of man are but as grass. For he flourisheth as a flower of the field: for, as soon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone; and
Pagina 382 - cast into a net by his own feet — he walketh upon a snare. Terrors shall make him afraid on every! side, and shall drive him to his feet. His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. The first-born
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Pagina 318 - whether we lived ten or an hundred years ; and the day of death is better than the day of our birth." Once more, dear sirs, accept my grateful thanks for all your goodness to me, from my early childhood, to the day, the unhappy day, of my
Pagina 487 - If such a strict poetical justice (proceeds the letter-writer) as some gentlemen insist upon, were to be observed in this art, there is no manner of reason why it should not extend to heroic poetry, as well as tragedy. But we find it so little observed in Homer, that his Achilles is placed
Pagina 83 - doth chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment: every man therefore