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"Clarissa. Or, the History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life"
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"Weather"
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"Jacobite Sympathies"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1747-8
"Reflect upon this; and then wilt thou be able to account for, if not to excuse, a projected crime, which has habit to plead for it, in a breast as stormy, as uncontroulable!"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"And is it not philosophy carried to the highest pitch, for a man to conquer such tumults of soul as I am sometimes agitated by, and, in the very height of the storm, to be able to quaver out an horse-laugh?"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)