Clarissa; or, The history of a young lady, Volume 7 |
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... Never knew a man that had a slight notion of the virtue of women in general , who deserved to be valued for his morals . Why women must be either more or less virtuous than men . Useful hints to young ladies . Is out of humour with Mr ...
... Never knew a man that had a slight notion of the virtue of women in general , who deserved to be valued for his morals . Why women must be either more or less virtuous than men . Useful hints to young ladies . Is out of humour with Mr ...
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... never want nor wear the things she disposes of . Having heard nothing from town that obliges me to go thither , I shall gratify poor Belton with my company till to - morrow , or perhaps till Wednesday . For the unhappy man is more and ...
... never want nor wear the things she disposes of . Having heard nothing from town that obliges me to go thither , I shall gratify poor Belton with my company till to - morrow , or perhaps till Wednesday . For the unhappy man is more and ...
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... never be able , I fear , to look up with satisfaction enough in herself to make life desirable to her . For this lady had other views in living , than the common ones of eating , sleeping , dressing , visit- ing , and those other ...
... never be able , I fear , to look up with satisfaction enough in herself to make life desirable to her . For this lady had other views in living , than the common ones of eating , sleeping , dressing , visit- ing , and those other ...
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... never see her again . She charged him to represent every thing to Miss Howe in the most favourable light that the truth would bear . He told me of a tender passage at parting ; which was , that having saluted her at her closet - door ...
... never see her again . She charged him to represent every thing to Miss Howe in the most favourable light that the truth would bear . He told me of a tender passage at parting ; which was , that having saluted her at her closet - door ...
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... never was a truer penitent . And why , why this anger , dear madam , ( for she struggled to get her hand out of his ) these violent airs - so maidenly ! [ impudent fellow ! ] - May I not ask , if Miss Howe be here ? She would not have ...
... never was a truer penitent . And why , why this anger , dear madam , ( for she struggled to get her hand out of his ) these violent airs - so maidenly ! [ impudent fellow ! ] - May I not ask , if Miss Howe be here ? She would not have ...
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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.