The Novels of Samuel Richardson: Complete and Unabridged ...W. Heinemann, 1902 |
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affair affected afraid answer Bartlett Beauchamp behaviour believe bless Bologna brother Camilla Charlotte chevalier chidden Clem Clementina Colnebrook compliment Count of Belvedere creature Danby daugh daughter dear deserve doctor Emily endeavour eyes father fault favour fortune Galliard gentleman girl give guardian Halden hand happy Harriet hear heart hinted honour hope indulgence knew Lady L leave letter looked Lord G Lord L lordship Lucy madam mamma March 18 marchioness marriage marry mind Miss Byron Miss Gr Miss Grandison Miss Jervois mother nephew never noble Northamptonshire O'Hara obliged occasion passion perhaps person pity pleasure poor Pray proposed question religion sake Samuel Richardson servant sighed Signor Jeronymo Sir Ch Sir Charles Grandison sister soon spirit stopt suppose sure talk tell tender thing thought thousand guineas told uncle unhappy wife wish woman women word worthy young lady
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Página 234 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Página 161 - Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won...
Página 234 - With the accent of her country, she very prettily repeated those lines: -She never told her love; But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud, Feed on her damask cheek: She pined in thought; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat, like Patience on a monument, Smiling at grief...
Página 162 - But, O ! my Lucy, they are not the striking, dazzling qualities in men and women, that make us happy. Good sense, and solid judgment, a natural complacency of temper, a desire of obliging, and an easiness to be obliged, procure the silent, the serene happiness, to which the fluttering, tumultuous, impetuous fervors of passion can never contribute. Nothing violent can be lasting.
Página 244 - minuter discriminations," a good example being the following treatment of Sir Charles's alterations at Grandison Hall: He has a great taste . . . yet not an expensive one; for he studies situation and convenience, and pretends not to level hills, or to force and distort nature; but to help it, as he finds it, without letting art be seen in his works, where he can possibly avoid it.
Página 168 - Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn ; A sudden friendship, while with stretch'd-out rays They meet each other, mingling blaze with blaze.
Página 124 - I saw him, all my disgusts were over. After the Anderson, the Danby, the Lord W affairs, he appeared to me in a much more shining light than an hero would have done, returning in a triumphal car, covered with laurels, and dragging captive princes at his wheels. How much more glorious a character is that of the friend of mankind, than that of the conqueror of nations ! He told me, that he paid his compliments yesterday to Mr.