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 315 - Richardson has no doubt a very good hand at painting excellence, but there is a strange awkwardness and extravagance in his vicious characters. To be sure, poor man, he had read in a book, or heard some one say, there was such a thing in the world as wickedness, but being totally ignorant in what manner the said wickedness operates upon the human heart, and what checks and restraints it meets with to prevent its ever being perfectly uniform and consistent in any one character, he has drawn such a...
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 252 - Now I name acting, have you read that strange book Roderic 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.
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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. Among others, there is the history of a poor tragedy author, ill used by actors and managers, that I think one cannot but be touched with, when one considers how many such kinds of scenes there are every day in real life. That wicked good-nature of the rich and great, that can see, and...
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Page 104 - ... conversation was drove away by that foe to human society — whist ; 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.