Lettersbenefit of the family., 1753 |
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Page 117 - ... of his words gave propriety to every change in his countenance. So that it was Mr. Booth's peculiar felicity to be heard and seen the same ; whether as the pleased, the grieved, the pitying, the reproachful, or the angry.
Page 286 - I have done nothing but read it to others, and hear others again read it, to me, ever since it came into my Hands; and I find I am likely to do nothing else, for I know not how long yet to come: because, if I lay the Book down, it comes after me.
Page 116 - He could soften, and slide over with a kind of elegant negligence, the improprieties in a part he acted ; while, on the contrary, he would dwell with energy upon the beauties, as if he exerted a latent spirit, which had been kept back for such an occasion, that he might alarm, awaken, and transport in those places only where the dignity of his own good sense could be supported by that of his author.
Page 290 - Wifer, for its Influence. It will fteal firft, imperceptibly, into the Hearts of the Young and the Tender : where It will afterwards guide and moderate their Reflections and Refolves...
Page 396 - ... be forgotten. If you had not been in the spleen when you wrote me this letter, I persuade myself you would not, immediately after censuring the pride of writers, have asserted that you certainly know your moral life above that of most of the wits of these days; at any other time, you would have remembered that humility is a moral virtue.
Page 286 - I know not how long yet to come: because, if I lay the Book down, it comes after me. — When it has dwelt all Day long upon the Ear, It takes Possession, all Night, of the Fancy. — It has Witchcraft in every Page of it; but it is the Witchcraft of Passion and Meaning.
Page 222 - ... whose it was by the resembling turn of Pamela's expressions, weighed with some which I had noted as peculiar in his letters ; yet very loath he was, a long time, to confess it. And to say the least I can of qualities, which he conceals with as much fear as if they were ignoble ones, he is so honest, open, generous, and great a thinker, that he cannot, in his writings, paint a virtue that he needs look farther than his heart to find a pattern for. Let me not, therefore, rob him for a moment, in...
Page 286 - I opened this powerful little piece with more expectation than from common designs, of like promise, because it came from your hands for my daughters, yet, who could have dreamt, he...
Page 326 - ... extremely mortifying, will be found of any ufe, comparatively with this plain and pleafant one, which need be taken, in the laft named intentionS, only to half the quantity, tity, perfifting night and morning for fome length of time, uninterruptedly.
Page 303 - I know it on a surer hope than that of vanity." The wine project, which is detailed in many pages, requires no notice. As a specimen of the adulation with which Richardson was incensed by all his correspondents, we may add the following sentences. " Where will your wonders end ? or how could I be able to express the joy it gives me to discern your genius rising with the grace and boldness of a pillar ! &c. Go on, dear sir ( I see you will and must), to charm and captivate the world, and force a scribbling...