 | Austin Dobson - Literary Criticism - 1902 - 232 pages
...That account is now resumed. " In the progress of it [the collection]," — he goes on to say, — " writing two or three letters to instruct handsome...the snares that might be laid against their virtue," — a story which he had heard many years before recurred to his thoughts. " And hence sprung Pamela."... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 616 pages
...indite?" They were the more urgent for me to begin the little volume for this hint. I set about it ; and, in the progress of it, writing two or three letters...might be laid against their virtue, the above story recurred to my thought ; and hence sprung "Pamela." — RICHARDSON, SAMUEL, C1760, Correspondence,... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1911 - 392 pages
...appear till two years later, its progress being interrupted by the writing and publication of Pamela. "In the progress of it writing two or three letters...to go out to service, as we phrase it, how to avoid snares that might be laid against their virtue . . ." he remembered a story he had heard many years... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1090 pages
...seeking, in his own words, " to instruct handsome girls, who were obliged to go out on service . . . how to avoid the snares that might be laid against their virtue " — a danger which appears to have always abnormally preoccupied him — he came to recollect a story... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1088 pages
...seeking, in his own words, " to instruct handsome girls, who were obliged to go out on service . . . how to avoid the snares that might be laid against their virtue " — a danger which appears to have always abnormally preoccupied him — he came to recollect a story... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - Literature - 1914 - 344 pages
...invention, and facility in composition, Richardson conceived the plan of creating, with materials all ready at hand, an original work of art. "In the progress...recurred to my thoughts : And hence sprung Pamela." As Richardson has given with such obliging fulness of detail the source and manner of composition of his... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - English literature - 1915 - 272 pages
...urgent with me to begin the little volume from this hint." So he set about his task and soon wrote "two or three letters to instruct handsome girls,...the snares that might be laid against their virtue." 178 While he was engaged on these, it chanced that a true story, which had been told him many years... | |
 | Septimus Rivington - Genealogy - 1919 - 256 pages
...more urgent for me to begin the little volume for the hint. I set about it, and in the progress of writing two or three letters to instruct handsome...might be laid against their virtue, the above story occurred to me, and hence sprang Pamela.'' The first two volumes of the story (commenced on 10th November... | |
 | William Harris Arnold - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1923 - 426 pages
...who were unable to indite for themselves." This he undertook, and, as the author himself tells us, "in the progress of it, writing two or three letters...the snares that might be laid against their virtue," he recalled a story of real life which had been told him years before about just such a girl. Whereupon... | |
 | John Buchan - English literature - 1923 - 746 pages
...of Human Life." It was in carrying out this delicate commission that he hit upon the idea of Pamela. Writing two or three letters " to instruct handsome...the snares that might be laid against their virtue," he recalled a seasonable story that had come to his notice years ago. Throwing aside the Familiar Letters,... | |
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Will it be any harm, said I, in a piece you want to be written so low, if we should instruct them how they should think and act in common cases, as well as indite ? They were the more urgent with me to begin the little volume for this hint. I set about... 
