Clarissa; or, The history of a young lady, Volume 7 |
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... give you comfort in the way most desir- able to yourself . I am exceedingly concerned at Miss Howe's writing about me to my friends . I do assure you , that I was as ignorant of her intention so to do , as of the contents of her letter ...
... give you comfort in the way most desir- able to yourself . I am exceedingly concerned at Miss Howe's writing about me to my friends . I do assure you , that I was as ignorant of her intention so to do , as of the contents of her letter ...
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... give fresh offence : so will decline all other commendations of duty and love : appealing to my heart for both , where both are flaming with an ardour that nothing but death can extinguish : therefore only subscribe myself , without so ...
... give fresh offence : so will decline all other commendations of duty and love : appealing to my heart for both , where both are flaming with an ardour that nothing but death can extinguish : therefore only subscribe myself , without so ...
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... give encrease to hers . Thou , Lovelace , mightest have seen all this su- perior excellence , as thou wentest along . In every word , in every sentiment , in every action is it visible . But thy cursed inventions and intriguing spirit ...
... give encrease to hers . Thou , Lovelace , mightest have seen all this su- perior excellence , as thou wentest along . In every word , in every sentiment , in every action is it visible . But thy cursed inventions and intriguing spirit ...
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... doubt any thing . But I think Mr. Hickman is an agreeable sensible man , and not at all deserving of the treatment or the cha- racter you give him . But you are really a strange mortal : because you 20 THE HISTORY OF.
... doubt any thing . But I think Mr. Hickman is an agreeable sensible man , and not at all deserving of the treatment or the cha- racter you give him . But you are really a strange mortal : because you 20 THE HISTORY OF.
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... give that preference to the infinitely preferable , which , I hope , now , that I shall always give ? I will leave thee to make the most of this reflec- tion , from Thy true friend , J. BELFORD . LETTER VI . MISS HOWE TO MISS CLARISSA ...
... give that preference to the infinitely preferable , which , I hope , now , that I shall always give ? I will leave thee to make the most of this reflec- tion , from Thy true friend , J. BELFORD . LETTER VI . MISS HOWE TO MISS CLARISSA ...
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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.