The History of Clarissa Harlowe: In a Series of Letters, Volume 2J. Carpenter and William Miller, 1811 - English fiction |
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Page 328 - Let the counsel of thine own heart stand ; for there is no man more faithful to thee than it : for a man's mind is sometimes wont to tell him more than seven watchmen, that sit above in a high tower.
Page 159 - I behold the desired port, the single state, into which I would fain steer; but am kept off by the foaming billows of a brother's and sister's envy, and by the raging winds of a supposed invaded authority; while I see in Lovelace, the rocks on one hand, and in Solmes, the sands on the other; and tremble, lest I should split upon the former, or strike upon the latter.
Page 54 - With joy I hear the solemn sound, Which midnight echoes waft around, And sighing gales repeat: Fav'rite of Pallas ! I attend, . And, faithful to thy summons, bend At Wisdom's awful seat.
Page 288 - I had a hand in it, turned all his rage against me. I thought he made them all fly into foreign parts upon it; and afterwards seizing upon me, carried me into a churchyard; and there, notwithstanding all my prayers and tears, and protestations of innocence, stabbed me to the heart, and then tumbled me into a deep grave ready dug, among two or three halfdissolved carcasses; throwing in the dirt and earth upon me with his hands, and trampling it down with his feet.