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... woman , what . Extremely ill . His ludicrous behaviour on awaking , and finding a clergyman and his friends praying for him by his bed - side . L. Belford to Lovelace . Concerned at his illness . Wishes that he had died before last ...
... woman , what . Extremely ill . His ludicrous behaviour on awaking , and finding a clergyman and his friends praying for him by his bed - side . L. Belford to Lovelace . Concerned at his illness . Wishes that he had died before last ...
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... woman ; who is the better for having been a proficient in the school of affliction . us . An excellent school ! my dear Mrs. Norton , in which we are taught to know ourselves , to be able to compassionate and bear with one another , and ...
... woman ; who is the better for having been a proficient in the school of affliction . us . An excellent school ! my dear Mrs. Norton , in which we are taught to know ourselves , to be able to compassionate and bear with one another , and ...
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... her opinion , be taking them from thee . Miss Howe's mother is an avaricious woman ; and , perhaps , the daughter can do nothing of that sort unknown to her ; and , if she could , is too 6 THE HISTORY OF Clarissa in answer.
... her opinion , be taking them from thee . Miss Howe's mother is an avaricious woman ; and , perhaps , the daughter can do nothing of that sort unknown to her ; and , if she could , is too 6 THE HISTORY OF Clarissa in answer.
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... woman in her illness , and that of poor Belton in his , that it is plain to me , the sinner is the real coward , and the saint the true hero ; and , sooner or later , we shall all find it to be so , if we are not cut off suddenly . The ...
... woman in her illness , and that of poor Belton in his , that it is plain to me , the sinner is the real coward , and the saint the true hero ; and , sooner or later , we shall all find it to be so , if we are not cut off suddenly . The ...
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... woman : Mrs. Lovick says she is but SELF is an odious devil , that recon- ciles to some people the most cruel and dishonest actions . But , nevertheless , it is my opinion , that those who can suffer themselves to take advantage of the ...
... woman : Mrs. Lovick says she is but SELF is an odious devil , that recon- ciles to some people the most cruel and dishonest actions . But , nevertheless , it is my opinion , that those who can suffer themselves to take advantage of the ...
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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.