THE WORKS OF SAMUEL RICHARDSON. |
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The Works of Samuel Richardson: With a Sketch of His Life and ..., Volume 10 Samuel Richardson Volledige weergave - 1811 |
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Pagina 203 - I did nothing but dream of robbers, rescues, and murders : such an impression had the distresses of this young lady made on my mind. They made me a poor report, proceeded she, of the night she had passed. And, as I told you, she fainted away this morning, a little before you came, on her endeavouring to give me some account of her affecting story. Let me tell you, Mr. Reeves, I am as curious as you can be to know the whole of what has befallen her: but her heart is tender and delicate: her spirits...
Pagina 102 - The sun and day shall sooner part, Than love or you shake off my heart ; The sun, that shall no more dispense His own, but your bright influence. I'll carve your name on barks of trees...
Pagina 30 - Good girl ! That was an assertion of mine, and I will abide by it. Lucy simpered when we came to this place, and looked at me. She expected, I saw, my notice upon it ; so did your aunt : but the confession was so frank, that I was generous ; and only said, True as the gospel. I have...
Pagina 61 - I judge from his solicitude to preserve all in exact order, when in company ; for he forgets not to pay his respects to himself at every glass ; yet does it with a seeming consciousness, as if he would hide a vanity too apparent to be concealed...
Pagina 81 - I have often thought it a great error to waste young gentlemen's years so long in learning Latin, by so tedious a grammar.
Pagina 85 - I will leave off for the present : yet have not quite dismissed the company (though I have done with the argument) that I thought to have parted with before 1 concluded this letter.
Pagina 167 - I made an effort to go. He caught my hand and arose, then kissed it and he]d it between both his. " ' For God's sake, madam — ' " £ Pray, Sir Hargrave — ' "'Your objections? I insist upon knowing your objections. My person, madam — forgive me, I am not used to boast — my person, madam — ' " ' Pray, Sir Hargrave — ' " ' — Is not contemptible. My fortune — ' " ' God bless you, sir ! with your fortune.
Pagina 101 - And take all lives of things from you; The world depend upon your eye, And when you frown upon it, die: Only our loves shall still survive, New worlds and natures to outlive, And, like to heralds...
Pagina x - Grandison contrasts the epistolary novel more publicly with a potential abridgment: "the nature of familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, or Events undecided, must plead an excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this kind.
Pagina x - The nature of familiar letters, written, as it were, to the moment, while the heart is agitated by hopes and fears, on events undecided, must plead an excuse for the bulk of a collection of this kind. Mere facts and characters might be comprised in a much smaller compass : but, would they be equally interesting...