A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the Year 1741 to 1770: To which are Added, Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Vesey, Between the Years 1763 and 1787; Published from the Original Manuscripts in the Posession of the Rev. Montagu Pennington, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1809 - Authors, English |
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Page 117 - Comme il n'attend la perfection d'aucune créature, il n'est jamais mécompté en rien. Il aime Dieu et ses dons en chaque créature, suivant le degré de bonté de chacune. Il aime moins ce qui est moins bon; il aime mieux ce qui est meilleur : il aime tout, parce qu'il n'ya rien qui n'ait quelque petit bien qui est le don de Dieu , et que les plus méchans , tandis qu'ils sont encore en cette vie, peuvent toujours devenir bons , et recevoir les dons qui leur manquent.
Page 315 - I am sorry to find you so outrageous about poor Tom Jones; he is no doubt an imperfect, but not a detestable character, with all that honesty, goodnature, and generosity of temper. Though nobody can admire Clarissa more than I do; yet with all our partiality, I am afraid, it must be confessed, that Fielding's book is the most natural representation of what passes in the world...
Page 367 - The Art of Coquetry" was not altogether favorable, for on December 1, 1750, Mrs. Elizabeth Carter writes her friend, Miss Talbot :18 Or do you know anything of a Mrs. Charlotte Lennox, who is publishing by subscription? one or two of her poems were printed in the last Magazine. For the edification of some of my young friends, we read one of them on the art of coquetry, at which they were much scandalized.
Page 89 - ... of the world ; and Handel, once so crowded, plays to empty walls in that opera house where there used to be a constant audience as long as there were any dancers to be seen.
Page 275 - Bftwling of lamentable prophecies, and a form of prayer. Some run away from London, and others, deeming it the safest place, come to it, and really such as one would imagine should have more sense. The beggars in the streets actually insult folks who refuse to give them small beer, by clapping their hands, and threatening them that the day of judgment will be next Thursday. Others, as I find by a dialogue I overheard in a neighbouring court, are of opinion, that all the women in the world, only,...
Page 252 - Random ! It is a very strange and a very low one, though not without some characters in it, and I believe some very just, though -very wretched descriptions.
Page 16 - I want very much to know whether you have yet condescended to read Joseph Andrews, as I am well assured the character of Mr. Adams is drawn from one in real life ; if the book strikes you as it did me, you will certainly come up to town next winter, that you and I may join in contriving some means of getting acquainted with...
Page 244 - There can be no doubt, can there, that you love Clarissa? As for us, we lived quite happy the whole time we were reading it, and we made that time as long as we could too, for we only read it CD famille, at set hours, and all the rest of the day we talked of it One can scarce persuade oneself that they are not real characters, and living people.
Page 193 - I was obliged to content myself with quietly setting by the fire-side, and listening to the storm at a distance. Was you ever electrified? We have an itinerant philosopher here, who knocks people down for the moderate consideration of sixpence, and men, women, and children are electrified out of their senses.
Page 104 - ... in a word, where I was kept up muzzing and half dead •with sleep and vexation till one in the morning, and from that time made a resolution, in whatever company I met a pack of cards, to fly from it as from the face of a serpent.