...ferioufly fad thing, after a!!, that fo fine a creature Ihould have fallt n into fuch vile and remorfelefs hands: for, from thy cradle, as I have heard thee own, thou ever delightedft to fpori with and torment the animal, whether bird or bead, tint thou lövedft, and had...

...to her days. And, in either case, will not the remembrance of thy ever-during guilt, and transitory triumph, be a torment of torments to thee? "Tis a...thee own, thou ever delightedst to sport with and tonnent the animal, whether bird or beast, that thou lovedst, and hadst a power over. How different...

...to her days. And, in either case, will not the remembrance of thy ever-during guilt, and transitory triumph, be a torment of torments to thee? 'Tis a...gratitude, thy interest, thy vows, all engaging thee; and thon certainly loving her, as far as thou art capable of love, above all her sex. She not to be drawn...

...to her days. And, in either case, will not the remembrance of thy ever-during guilt, and transitory triumph, be a torment of torments to thee? 'Tis a...this fine woman from that of any other whom thou hast seduced!—I need not mention to thee, nor insist upon the striking difference: justice, gratitude,...

...we are commonly aware of. But Jack is already aware of it, in Lovelace's case at least, and replies: 'Thou ever delightedst to sport with and torment the...beast, that thou lovedst and hadst a power over'. Sadism is, no doubt, the ultimate form which the eighteenthcentury view of the masculine role involved:...

...IV, letter 56, p. 341, Belford accuses the 'libertine' and rapist Lovelace: 'from thy Cradle . . . thou ever delightedst to sport with and torment the...beast, that thou lovedst, and hadst a power over'. 88 Ronald Paulson, Hogarth's Graphic Works, revised ed., i vols.. New Haven and London: Yale University...