The Novels of Samuel Richardson: Pamela; or, Virtue rewarded

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Classic Books, 1902
 

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Página 293 - Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their deaths they were not divided.
Página 121 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Página 31 - I come not an alarmed, a jealous foe, To envy you the heart your charms have won : The only man I sought to please, is gone ; Killed in my sight, by an inhuman hand. Hector first taught me love; which my fond hear Shall ever cherish, 'till we meet in death.
Página 227 - Offensive circumstances ordinarily infect innocent things, which they are joined with: and the very sight of a cup, wherein any one uses to take nauseous physic, turns his stomach ; so that nothing will relish well out of it, though the cup be ever so clean, and well-shaped, and of the richest materials.
Página 266 - But under whose care soever a child is , . put to be taught during the tender and flexible years of his life, this is certain, it should be one who thinks Latin and language the least. part of education...
Página 246 - to instil sentiments of humanity, and to keep them lively in young folks, will be, to accustom them to civility in their language and deportment towards their inferiors, and the meaner sort of people, particularly servants. It is not unusual to observe the children in gentlemen's families treat the servants of the house with domineering words, names of contempt, and an imperious carriage, as if they were of another race, or species beneath them.
Página 26 - ... probability, as I presume to say, in some of its parts ; and had not the softest passion in nature been treated as such a flaming thing, as cannot be a worthy example to female minds. And first...
Página 322 - Not a great deal in the former : there were very few novels and romances that my lady would permit me to read; and those I did, gave me no great pleasure; for either they dealt so much in the marvellous and improbable, or were so unnaturally inflaming to the passions, and so full of love and intrigue, that most of them seemed calculated to fire the imagination, rather than to inform the judgment.
Página 233 - ... hundred scholars under his eye, any longer than they are in the school together: Nor can it be expected, that he should instruct them successfully in...
Página 40 - a noble fortune ; and I thought she had a right to share it ; therefore carried her to see the world, forsooth, and make the tour of France and Italy, where she learned to lose her money gracefully, to admire every vanity in our sex, and contemn every virtue in her own ; which, with ten thousand other perfections, are the ordinary improvements of a travelled lady.

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