The History of Clarissa Harlowe: In a Series of Letters, Volume 4

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J. Carpenter and William Miller, 1811
 

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Pagina 345 - insensibility. These lines translated from Juvenal by Mr. Tate, I have been often pleased with : Compassion proper to mankind appears : Which Nature witness'd, when she lent us tears. Of tender sentiments WE only give These proofs : To weep is OUR prerogative : To show by pitying looks, and melting eyes, How with a
Pagina 126 - and cannot. Miss Howe dare not. She has not one ' friend in town but ME—is entirely a stranger to the ' town*.'—What must that heart be that can triumph in a distress so deep, into which she has been plunged by thy elaborate arts and contrivances ? And what a sweet, yet
Pagina 400 - this very instant NOW! you must show it, and be gone ! you can never in a whole long life repair the evils you may NOW make me suffer! Wicked wretch !—Insolent villain !—Yes, she called me insolent villain, although so much in my power! And for what!—only for kissing (with passion indeed} her
Pagina 301 - complained of a disorder in his stomach over night. I was the more affected with it, as I am afraid it was occasioned by the violent contentions between us.—But was I in fault ? How lately did I think I hated him !—But hatred and anger, I see, are but temporary passions with me. One cannot, my dear, hate people
Pagina 358 - who resents not initiatory freedoms must be lost. For love is an encroacher. Love never goes backward. Love is always aspiring. Always must aspire. Nothing but the highest act of love can satisfy an indulged love. And what advantages has a lover, who values not breaking the peace, over his mistress who
Pagina 219 - [if such an occasion there be, I have certainly acquainted her with it] ; and will engage it shall be in your favour. Devilish severe ! And as indelicate as severe, to put a modish man upon hunting backward after his own merits. She would have flung from me : I will not be detained, Mr.
Pagina 296 - its aid, whether by health or by ailment, to carry a resolved-on roguery into execution. Dorcas has transcribed for me the whole letter of Miss Howe, dated Sunday, May 14*, of which before I had only extracts. She found no other letter added to that parcel: but this, and that which I copied myself in
Pagina 383 - She cannot be so much and so soon affected as libertines are apt to imagine. She must, at least, have some confidence in the honour and silence of a man, before desire can possibly put forth in her, to encourage and meet his flame. For my own part, I have been always decent in the
Pagina 395 - have the whole before thee as it passed: and this not from a spirit wantoning in description upon so rich a subject; but with a design to put a bound to thy roving thoughts. It will be iniquity, greater than a Lovelace was ever guilty of, to carry them farther than I shall
Pagina 400 - on my knees I beg you to consider me as a ' poor creature who has no protector but you ; who has ' no defence but your honour: by that honour ! by your ' humanity ! by all you have vowed ! I conjure you not ' to make me abhor myself! not to make me vile in

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