Works of Samuel Richardson: The history of Clarissa Harlowe

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H. Sotheran, 1883
 

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Сторінка 105 - And let the counsel of thine own heart stand : for there is no man more faithful unto thee than it. For a man's mind is sometime wont to tell him more than seven watchmen, that sit above in a high tower.
Сторінка 104 - The clergyman took his clasped Bible from his pocket, and read the following words : — "If a woman vow a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth; and her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her : then all her vows shall stand, and every vow wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand." "And was it not even so with us?" interrupted Ravenswood. " Control thy impatience, young...
Сторінка 457 - Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels: for his thoughts were low; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful: yet he pleased the ear...
Сторінка 104 - But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand : and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
Сторінка 64 - You, my dear, said she, believe you shall be unhappy, if you have Mr. Solmes : your parents think the contrary ; and that you will be undoubtedly so, were you to have Mr. Lovelace, whose morals are unquestionably bad : suppose it were your sad lot to be unhappy with either, let me beseech you to consider, what great consolation you will have on one hand, if you pursue your parents...
Сторінка 223 - An innocent person, if doubted, must wish to be brought to a fair and candid trial.
Сторінка 104 - These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.
Сторінка 457 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Сторінка 504 - I bestow, both military and civil. I give estates, and take them away, at my pleasure. Quality too I create. And by a still more valuable prerogative, I degrade by virtue of my own imperial will, without any other act of forfeiture than for my own convenience. What a poor thing is a monarch...
Сторінка 250 - Habitual evils change not on a sudden : But many days must pass, and many sorrows ; Conscious remorse and anguish must be felt, To curb desire, to break the stubborn will, And work a second nature in the soul...

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