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Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady novel. A total of 426 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Clarissa.Volume 1.by Samuel Richardson.PREFACE The following History is given in a serie
Clarissa.Volume 1.by Samuel Richardson.PREFACE The following History is given in a series of letters, written Princ.i.p.ally in a double yet separate correspondence; Between two young ladies of virtue and honor, bearing an inviolable friends.h.i.+p for ea
- 401 And now, O my blessed REDEEMER, do I, with a lively faith, humbly lay hold of thy meritorious death and sufferings; hoping to be washed clean in thy precious blood from all my sins: in the bare hope of the happy consequences of which, how light do those s
- 402 LETTER x.x.xVI MISS MONTAGUE, TO JOHN BELFORD, ESQ.M. HALL, FRIDAY, SEPT. 15.SIR, My Lord having the gout in his right hand, his Lords.h.i.+p, and Lady Sarah, and Lady Betty, have commanded me to inform you, that, before your letter came, Mr. Lovelace was
- 403 Whenever you shall be inclined to consult the sacred oracles from whence the above threatenings are extracted, you will find doctrines and texts which a truly penitent and contrite heart may lay hold of for its consolation.May your's, Mr. Lovelace, b
- 404 The accursed woman, they tell me, has broken her leg. Why was it not her neck?--All, all, but what is owing to her relations, is the fault of that woman, and of her h.e.l.l-born nymphs. The greater the virtue, the n.o.bler the triumph, was a sentence for
- 405 MR. BELFORD, TO ROBERT LOVELACE, ESQ.FRIDAY, SEPT. 22.Just as I was sitting down to answer your's of the 14th to the 18th, in order to give you all the consolation in my power, came your revoking letter of Wednesday.I am really concerned and disappoi
- 406 When a man has not great good to comfort himself with, it is right to make the best of the little that may offer. There never was any discomfort happened to mortal man, but some little ray of consolation would dart in, if the wretch was not so much a wret
- 407 * See Vol. VII. Letter XXI.Thou canst not pretend, and I know thou wilt not, that thou wert afraid of thy life by taking such a measure: for a braver fellow lives not, nor a more fearless, than Jack Belford. I remember several instances, and thou canst no
- 408 MY DEAREST COUSIN, As it is uncertain, from my present weak state, whether, if living, I may be in a condition to receive as I ought the favour you intend me of a visit, when you come to London, I take this opportunity to return you, while able, the humbl
- 409 Such, Sir, was the angel, of whom the vilest of men has deprived the world! You, Sir, who know more of the barbarous machinations and practices of this strange man, can help me to still more inflaming reasons, were they needed, why a man, not perfect, may
- 410 You will excuse me, Mr. Belford, for the particularities which you invited and encouraged. Having now seen every thing that relates to the will of my dear cousin brought to a desirable issue, I will set about making my own. I shall follow the dear creatur
- 411 A charge that I ought not to be quite silent under.You have observed, no doubt, that I have seemed to value myself upon the freedom I take in declaring my sentiments without reserve upon every subject that I pretend to touch upon: and I can hardly questio
- 412 On Monday he will be with you, I believe. Pray let me be favoured with an account of all your conversations; for Mr. Mowbray and Mr. Tourville are to be there too; and whether you think he is grown quite his own man again.What I mostly write for is, to wi
- 413 'Adieu!--And once more adieu!'--embracing me. 'And when thou thinkest thou hast made thyself an interest out yonder (looking up) then put in a word for thy Lovelace.'Joining company, he recommended to me to write often; and promised to let me hear qui
- 414 This native dignity, as I may call it, induced some superficial persons, who knew not how to account for the reverence which involuntarily filled their hearts on her appearance, to impute pride to her. But these were such as knew that they should have bee
- 415 But if her voice was melodious when she read, it was all harmony when she sung. And the delight she gave by that, and by her skill and great compa.s.s, was heightened by the ease and gracefulness of her air and manner, and by the alacrity with which she o
- 416 Yet how do these poor boasters value themselves upon the advantages their education gives them! Who has not seen some one of them, just come from the university, disdainfully smile at a mistaken or ill-p.r.o.nounced word from a lady, when her sense has be
- 417 LETTER LVI MR. LOVELACE, TO JOHN BELFORD, ESQ.PARIS, OCT. 14.---- ---- Timor & minae Scandunt eodum quo dominus; neque Decedit aerata triremi; & Post equitem sedet atra cura.In a language so expressive as the English, I hate the pedantry of tagging or pre
- 418 In short, I am as much convinced that I have done wrong, as he can be; and regret it as much. But I will not bear to be threatened by any man in the world, however conscious I may be of having deserved blame.Adieu, Belford! Be sincere with me. No palliati
- 419 His sincere admirer, and humble servant, R. LOVELACE.LETTER LXI MR. LOVELACE, TO JOHN BELFORD, ESQ.LINTZ, | NOV. 28.| DEC. 9.I am now on my way to Trent, in order to meet Colonel Morden, in pursuance of his answer to my letter enclosed in my last. I had b
- 420 * Ibid. Letter x.x.xVI.** See Vol. VIII. Letter LXIV.*** See Letter x.x.xVI. of this volume.The cursed women, indeed, endeavoured to excite my vengeance, and my pride, by preaching to me of me. And my pride was, at times, too much excited by their vile in
- 421 TO JOHN BELFORD, ESQ.NEAR SOHO-SQUARE, LONDON.TRENT, DEC. 18, N.S.SIR, I have melancholy news to inform you of, by order of the Chevalier Lovelace. He showed me his letter to you before he sealed it; signifying, that he was to meet the Chevalier Morden on
- 422 Humani generis mores tibi nosse volenti Sufficit una domus: paucos consume dies, & Dicere te miserum, postquam illinc veneris, aude.Mrs. HARLOWE lived about two years and an half after the lamented death of her CLARISSA.Mr. HARLOWE had the additional affl
- 423 He died when Polly was about nine years of age, leaving her to the care of her mother, a lively young lady of about twenty-six; with a genteel provision for both.Her mother was extremely fond of her Polly; but had it not in herself to manifest the true, t
- 424 The foregoing work having been published at three different periods of time, the author, in the course of its publication, was favoured with many anonymous letters, in which the writers differently expressed their wishes with regard to the apprehended cat
- 425 Mr. Addison, as we have seen above, tells us, that Aristotle, in considering the tragedies that were written in either of the kinds, observes, that those which ended unhappily had always pleased the people, and carried away the prize, in the public disput
- 426 And as to Lovelace's treatment of him, the reader must have observed, that it was his way to treat every man with contempt, partly by way of self-exaltation, and partly to gratify the natural gaiety of his disposition. He says himself to Belford,* &#