Works of Samuel Richardson: The history of Clarissa Harlowe

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H. Sotheran, 1883
 

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Pagina 449 - But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels: for his thoughts were low; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful: yet he pleased the ear...
Pagina 244 - Habitual evils change not on a sudden : But many days must pass, and many sorrows; Conscious remorse and anguish must be felt, To curb desire, to break the stubborn will, And work a second nature in the soul, Ere Virtue can resume the place she lost : .Tis else dissimulation — He had often read these lines, he said ; but never fasten them before.
Pagina 62 - You, my dear, said she, believe you shall be unhappy, if you have Mr. Solmes : your parents think the contrary ; and that you will be undoubtedly so, were you to have Mr. Lovelace, whose morals are unquestionably bad : suppose it were your sad lot to be unhappy with either, let me beseech you to consider, what great consolation you will have on one hand, if you pursue your parents...
Pagina 449 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Pagina 290 - There was, I believe, a kind of phrensy in my manner, which threw her into a panic, like that of Semele perhaps when the Thunderer, in all his majesty, surrounded with ten thousand celestial burning-glasses, was about to scorch her into a cinder.
Pagina 165 - ... of her which custom permits to be visible. Thou hast heard me also describe the wavy ringlets of her shining hair, needing neither art nor powder; of itself an ornament defying all other ornaments; wantoning in and about a neck that is beautiful beyond description. Her head-dress was a Brussels lace mob, peculiarly adapted to the charming air and turn of her features. A sky-blue ribbon illustrated that.
Pagina 378 - My father, in the first agitations of his mind, on discovering your wicked, your shameful elopement, imprecated on his knees a fearful curse upon you. Tremble at the recital of it! No less, than 'that you may meet your punishment both here and hereafter, by means of the very wretch in whom you have chosen to place your wicked confidence.

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