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... JOHN BELFORD , ESQ . Friday , July 28 . I HAVE three letters of thine to take notice of * , but am divided in my mind , whether to quarrel with thee , on thy unmerciful reflections , or to thank thee for thy acceptable particularity and ...
... JOHN BELFORD , ESQ . Friday , July 28 . I HAVE three letters of thine to take notice of * , but am divided in my mind , whether to quarrel with thee , on thy unmerciful reflections , or to thank thee for thy acceptable particularity and ...
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... JOHN BELFORD , ESQ . But now I have cleared myself of any intentional levity on occasion of my beloved's meditation ; which , as you observe , is finely suited to her case ( that is to say , as she and you have drawn her case ) ; I ...
... JOHN BELFORD , ESQ . But now I have cleared myself of any intentional levity on occasion of my beloved's meditation ; which , as you observe , is finely suited to her case ( that is to say , as she and you have drawn her case ) ; I ...
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... JOHN BELFORD , ESQ . Tuesday , Aug. 1 . I AM most confoundedly chagrined and disappoint- ed : for here , on Saturday , arrived a messenger from Miss Howe with a letter to my cousins * ; which I knew nothing of till yesterday : when Lady ...
... JOHN BELFORD , ESQ . Tuesday , Aug. 1 . I AM most confoundedly chagrined and disappoint- ed : for here , on Saturday , arrived a messenger from Miss Howe with a letter to my cousins * ; which I knew nothing of till yesterday : when Lady ...
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... JOHN BELFORD , ESQ . Aug. 3 . You have frequently offered to oblige me in any thing that shall be within your power : and I have * See the above to Miss Montague . such an opinion of you , as to be willing CLARISSA HARLOWE . 107.
... JOHN BELFORD , ESQ . Aug. 3 . You have frequently offered to oblige me in any thing that shall be within your power : and I have * See the above to Miss Montague . such an opinion of you , as to be willing CLARISSA HARLOWE . 107.
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... JOHN BELFORD , ESQ . SIR , Friday , Aug. 4 . I HOLD myself extremely obliged to you for your communications . I will make no use of them , that you shall have reason to reproach either yourself or me with . I wanted no new lights to ...
... JOHN BELFORD , ESQ . SIR , Friday , Aug. 4 . I HOLD myself extremely obliged to you for your communications . I will make no use of them , that you shall have reason to reproach either yourself or me with . I wanted no new lights to ...
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Page 139 - When Thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, Thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment : every man therefore is but vanity.
Page 57 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 88 - If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: If I say, "I am perfect," it shall also prove me perverse.
Page 175 - Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, 0 ye, my friends! for the hand of God hath touched me.
Page 146 - When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint; Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions : So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than my life.
Page 140 - Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted. "The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
Page 203 - For my days are consumed away like smoke, and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand. 4 My heart is smitten down, and withered like grass ; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Page 203 - Because of thine indignation and thy wrath : for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
Page 175 - Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness, and the shadow of death, A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Page 118 - Let. 22.) must be the Style of those who write in the height of a present distress; the mind tortured by the pangs of uncertainty (the Events then hidden in the womb of Fate); than the dry, narrative, unanimated Style of a person relating difficulties and dangers surmounted, can be; the relater perfectly at ease; and if himself unmoved by his own Story, not likely greatly to affect the Reader.