The Novels of Samuel Richardson. Complete and Unabridged...

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W. Heinemann, 1902

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Sivu 157 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Sivu 26 - Sir Charles Grandison/ Harriet Byron says, in one of her letters to Lucy Selby, " I am very much mistaken, if every woman would not find her account, if she wishes herself to be thought well of, in discouraging every reflection that may have a tendency to debase or expose the sex in general. How can a man be suffered to boast of his vileness to one woman in the presence of another, without a rebuke, that should put it to the proof whether the boaster was or was not past blushing ? " Few women, in...
Sivu 110 - Be good — and let Heaven answer for the rest. Yet, with a sigh o'er all mankind, I grant In this our day of proof, our land of hope, The good man has his clouds that intervene; Clouds, that obscure his sublunary day, But never conquer: e'en the best must own, Patience, and resignation, are the pillars Of human peace on Earth.
Sivu 137 - N"o, she said: but bid her last blessing be repeated to them, and her charge, of loving one another, in the words of our Saviour, as she had loved us: and when the chaplain came to read a text which she had imperfectly pointed to, but so as to be understood, she repeated, in faltering accents, but with more strength of voice than she had had for an hour before, ' I have fought a good fight ; I have finished ' my course ; I have kept the faith — There is laid up for me
Sivu 287 - Uno tien su i ginnochi, un sulle piante, E mentre agli atti, ai gemiti, all' aspetto Lor voglie intende si diverse, e tante, A questi un guardo, a quei dispensa un detto, E se ride, o s'adira, e sempre amante : Tal per noi Provvidenza alta infinita Veglia, e quest!

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