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Pagina iii
... writing , was not such a fault to his contemporaries . But a modern reader may be permitted to wish that Clarissa had been a good deal abridged at the beginning . " Sir Walter Scott's Memoir of Richardson . VOL . I LONDON TINSLEY ...
... writing , was not such a fault to his contemporaries . But a modern reader may be permitted to wish that Clarissa had been a good deal abridged at the beginning . " Sir Walter Scott's Memoir of Richardson . VOL . I LONDON TINSLEY ...
Pagina ix
... writer , and hence they think more of him than his fellow - countrymen . Richardson is certainly not a graceful writer ; but he is always clear , he is gene- rally vigorous , he can be lively at command , and there is a raciness in his ...
... writer , and hence they think more of him than his fellow - countrymen . Richardson is certainly not a graceful writer ; but he is always clear , he is gene- rally vigorous , he can be lively at command , and there is a raciness in his ...
Pagina xiii
... writer . Prolixity of gossip , as displayed in the pages of literature , is most rank in the conversation of Dame Quickly . When this worthy hostess wished to bring it home to Falstaff that he had promised to marry her , she pelted his ...
... writer . Prolixity of gossip , as displayed in the pages of literature , is most rank in the conversation of Dame Quickly . When this worthy hostess wished to bring it home to Falstaff that he had promised to marry her , she pelted his ...
Pagina xvii
... writing into which he threw his narrative . The story is told in the correspondence of the leading characters , who are addicted to letter - writing , surely as correspondents never were before , nor have been since : Some of them write ...
... writing into which he threw his narrative . The story is told in the correspondence of the leading characters , who are addicted to letter - writing , surely as correspondents never were before , nor have been since : Some of them write ...
Pagina xxix
... writer's genius our sympathies are enlisted on the side of the high bred gentleman , jealous of his un- spotted fame , though the seeming malevolence with which through life he pursues his second victim might , in the narrative of a ...
... writer's genius our sympathies are enlisted on the side of the high bred gentleman , jealous of his un- spotted fame , though the seeming malevolence with which through life he pursues his second victim might , in the narrative of a ...
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
angry answer apprehension April 12 asked assure aunt Hervey behaviour Belford believe Bella brother and sister character child Clary command comply cousin creature daughter dear dearest declared door doubt Dover Street duty escritoire expect eyes father favour friends gentleman girl give hand Hannah HARLOWE TO MISS hear heard heart Hickman honour hope Jules Janin knew leave letter libertine live single looked Lord M.'s Lovelace Lovelace's madam mamma marriage marry mind MISS CLARISSA HARLOWE morning mother never niece night obliged occasion offer once parlour passion person pleased present proposal reason receive relations resolution resolved Richardson seems sent servant Sir Charles Grandison Soho Square Solmes Solmes's soon suppose sure tell thee thing thou thought tion told uncle Antony uncle Harlowe unhappy violence Wednesday wish woman word wretch write young
Populaire passages
Pagina xiii - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singingman of Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
Pagina v - When I was in India, I passed one hot season at the hills, and there were the governor-general, and the secretary of government, and the commander-in-chief, and their wives. I had Clarissa with me : and, as soon as they began to read, the whole station was in a passion of excitement about Miss Harlowe and her misfortunes, and her scoundrelly Lovelace ! The governor's wife seized the book, and the secretary waited for it, and the chief justice could not read it for tears...
Pagina xlvi - It requires a reader to be in some degree acquainted with the huge folios of inanity, over which our ancestors yawned themselves to sleep, ere he can estimate the delight they must have experienced from this unexpected return to truth and nature.
Pagina 108 - O there's music in the name, That soft'ning me to infant tenderness, Makes my heart spring like the first leaps of life...
Pagina 108 - Love various minds does variously inspire; It stirs in gentle bosoms gentle fire. Like that of incense on the altar laid : But raging flames tempestuous souls invade; A fire which every windy passion blows, With pride it mounts, or with revenge it glows.
Pagina 107 - I will not therefore sully my paper with them. But is it not a confounded thing to be in love with one, who is the daughter, the sister, the niece, of a family, I must eternally despise ? And, the devil of it, that love increasing with her — what shall I call it ? — 'Tis not scorn : — 'Tis not pride : — 'Tis not the insolence of an adored beauty : — But 'tis to virtue, it seems, that my difficulties are...
Pagina 57 - The man is a very confident, he is a very bold, staring man ! — Indeed, my dear, the man is very confident. He took the removed chair, and drew it so near mine, squatting in it with his ugly weight, that he pressed upon my hoop. — I was so offended (all I had heard, as I said, in my head) that I removed to another chair. I own I had too little command of myself. It gave my brother and sister too much advantage. I dare say they took it. But I did it involuntarily, I think. I could not help it....
Pagina l - The delicious meal I made of Miss Byron on Sunday last, has given me an appetite for another slice of her, off from the spit, before she is served up to the public table ; if about five o'clock to-morrow afternoon will not be inconvenient, Mrs. Brown and I will come and piddle upon a bit more of her ; but pray let your whole family, with Mrs.
Pagina 108 - ... braved as I am braved, threatened as I am threatened, by those who are afraid to see me; and by this brutal brother, too, to whom I gave a life; [a life indeed not worth my taking!] had I not a greater pride in knowing that by means of his very spy upon me, I am playing him off as I please; cooling or inflaming his violent passions as may best suit my purposes...
Pagina xxx - ... tis as indecent to shew all we think, as all we have. He has no idea of the manners of high life : his old lord M. talks in the style of a country justice, and his virtuous young ladies -romp like the wenches round a may-pole. Such liberties as pass between Mr. Lovelace and his cousins, are not to be excused by the relation. I should have been much astonished if lord Denbigh should have offered to kiss me ; and I dare swear lord Trentham never attempted such an impertinence to you.