Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded: In a Series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel, to Her Parents. Now First Published in Order to Cultivate the Principles of Virtue ... in the Minds of the Youth ... In Two Volumes, Nide 1

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C. Rivington, ... and J. Osborn, 1741 - 396 sivua
 

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Sivu xvi - I have done nothing but read it to others, and hear others again read it to me, ever since it came into my Hands ; and I find I am...
Sivu 138 - About eight at night, we entered the courtyard of this handsome, large, old, and lonely mansion, that looks made for solitude and mischief, as I thought, by its appearance, with all its brown nodding horrors of lofty elms and pines about it...
Sivu 19 - I'll do you no harm, Pamela; don't be afraid of me. I said, I won't stay. You won't, hussy! said he; do you know whom you speak to? I lost all fear, and all respect, and said, Yes, I do, sir, too well ! — Well may I forget that I am your servant, when you forget what belongs to a master.
Sivu xiii - In short, Sir, a Piece of this Kind is much wanted in the World, which is but too much, as well as too early debauched by pernicious Novels.
Sivu 31 - May I, said I, Lucretia like, justify myself with my death, if I am used barbarously ! Oh, my good girl, said he tauntingly, you are well read, I see ; and we shall make out between us, before we have done, a pretty story in romance, I warrant ye.
Sivu xix - Twenty Ages to come may be the Better and Wifer, for its Influence. It will fteal firft, imperceptibly, into the Hearts of the Young and the Tender : where It will afterwards guide and moderate their Reflections and Refolves, when grown Older. And...
Sivu xxxiii - ... swelled as if they would burst with the throbbing restraint of his sorrow. I turned his innocent face to look towards me, but his eyes were quite lost in his tears, which, running down from his cheeks in free currents, had formed two sincere little fountains on that part of the carpet he hung over.
Sivu 270 - Confidence?' thinking still it had been Nan. But he kissed me with frightful vehemence; and then his voice broke upon me like a clap of thunder, 'Now, Pamela,' said he, 'is the dreadful time of reckoning come, that I have threatened.
Sivu 94 - Grace, that is all my Comfort: For I shall think nothing too mean that is honest. It may be a little hard at first ; but woe to my proud Heart, if I find it so, on Trial ! for I will make it bend to its Condition, or break it.
Sivu 173 - Why, what is all this, my dear, but that our neighbour has a mind to his mother's waiting-maid! And if he takes care she wants for nothing, I don't see any great injury will be done her. He hurts no family by this...

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