 ... letters ; nor did any one of them ever know that I was the secretary to the others. I have been directed to chide, and even repulse, when an offence was either taken or given, at the very time that the heart of the chider or repulser was open before...  Lives of the novelists - Page 6by sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Marijke Rudnik-Smalbraak - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 291 pages
...heart: I have been directed to chide, and even repulse, when an Of fence was either taken or given, at the very time that the Heart of the Chider or Repulser...Word, or that Expression, to be softened or changed. Their true feelings visible to young Richardson only, inspired as it were by hope and fear, the three... | |
 | Tom Keymer - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 296 pages
...simple transcriptions of the heart. 'I have been directed to chide, and even repulse', he writes, '. . . at the very time that the Heart of the Chider or Repulser...directing this Word, or that Expression, to be softened or changed.'91 Stinstra's response was to point the link between these letters and those of Richardson's... | |
 | John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 1064 pages
...Reading," who "revealed to me their Love Secrets": "I have been directed to chide, and even repulse, ... at the very time that the Heart of the Chider or Repulser...the fair Repulser dreading to be taken at her Word." In thus acting as a "Secretary" (in several senses), Richardson learned important lessons in the erotics... | |
 | Tassie Gwilliam - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 202 pages
...others. I have been directed to chide, and even repulse, when an Offence was either taken or given, at the very time that the Heart of the Chider or Repulser...Word, or That Expression, to be softened or changed. 14 Through writing, the young Richardson is free to range across the boundaries of gender difference... | |
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