Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3

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Сэмюэл Ричардсон

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2018

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Ibid. Letter XLVII. par. 6, and 39.

13

This will be farther explained in Letter XXI. of this volume. *****

See Vol. I. Letters XXXI. and XXXIV.

14

See Vol. I. Letter XXXV.

15

See Vol. II. Letter XLVIII.

16

See Vol. I. Letter XXXI.

17

See Vol. II. Letter XXVII.

18

See Letter VI. of this volume.

19

Mr. Lovelace might have spared this caution on this occasion, since many of the sex [we mention it with regret] who on the first publication had read thus far, and even to the lady's first escape, have been readier to censure her for over-niceness, as we have observed in a former note, page 42, than him for artifices and exultations not less cruel and ungrateful, than ungenerous and unmanly.

20

The particular attention of such of the fair sex, as are more apt to read for the same of amusement than instruction, is requested to this letter of Mr. Lovelace.

21

The story tells us, that whoever drank of this cup, if his wife were chaste, could drink without spilling; if otherwise, the contrary.

22

This word, whenever used by any of these gentlemen, was agreed to imply an inviolable secret.

23

See Vol.I. Letter IV.

24

See Vol.II. Letter XXXVI.

25

See his Letter to Joseph Leman, Vol.III. No.III. towards the end, where he tells him, he would contrive for him a letter of this nature to copy.

26

Mr. Lovelace is as much out in his conjecture of Solomon, as of Socrates. The passage is in Ecclesiasticus, chap. xxv.

27

See his reasons for proposing Windsor, Letter XXV.—and her Hannah, Letter XXVI.

28

That he proposes one day to reform, and that he has sometimes good motions, see Vol.I. Letter XXXIV.

29

He had said, Letter XVIII. that he would make reformation his stalking-horse, &c.

He then acquaints his friend with what passed between him and the Lady, in relation to his advices from Harloweplace, and to his proposal about lodgings, pretty much to the same purpose as in her preceding Letter.

30

This letter Mrs. Greme (with no bad design on her part) was put upon writing by Mr. Lovelace himself, as will be seen in Letter XXXV.

31

See Vol.I. Letter X.

32

See Vol.II. Letter III.

33

This inference of the Lady in his favour is exactly what he had hoped for. See Letter XXV. of this volume.

34

See this confirmed by Mr. Lovelace, Letter XI. of this volume.

35

See Letter XXVIII. of this volume.

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