The Novelist's Magazine, Volume 7

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Harrison and Company, 1782 - English fiction
A collection of separately paged novels.
 

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Page 48 - O God of our salvation ; Thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea.
Page 65 - I declare my purpose is to set him up as a beacon for the benefit of the unexperienced and unwary, who, from the perusal of these memoirs, may learn to avoid the manifold snares with which they are continually surrounded in the paths of life...
Page 65 - The impulses of fear, which is the most violent and interesting of all the passions, remain longer than any other upon the memory: and for one that is allured to virtue by the contemplation of that peace and happiness which it bestows, an hundred are deterred from the practice of vice, by that infamy and punishment to which it is liable, from the laws and regulations of mankind.
Page 65 - Let me not therefore be condemned for having chosen my principal character from the purlieus of treachery and fraud, when I declare my purpose is to set him up as a beacon for the benefit of the unexperienced and unwary...
Page 64 - A novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or success, without a principal personage to attract the attention, unite the incidents, unwind the clue of the labyrinth, and at last close the scene, by virtue of his own importance.
Page 16 - Yet one boon have I to crave; Stranger, if thy pity bleed, Wilt thou do one tender deed, And strew my pale flowers o'er their grave?
Page 83 - Amidit the interruptions of his forrows, feeing his penitent overwhelmed with grief, he was only able to bid her from time to time be comforted ; to tell her that her...
Page 81 - Theodofiusi that he contracted an unreafonable averfion towards his fon, infomuch that he forbad him his houfe, and charged : his daughter upon her duty never to fee him more. In the mean time, to break- off all communication between the two lovers, . who he knew entertained fecret hopes of fome favourable opportunity that...
Page 64 - ... and trembled at the errors of your conduct — yet. as I own you possess certain good qualities, which overbalance these defects, and distinguish you on this occasion as a person for whom I have the most perfect attachment and esteem, you have no cause to complain of the indelicacy with which your faults are reprehended. And as they are chiefly the excesses of a sanguine disposition and looseness of thought, impatient of caution or control, you may, thus stimulated, watch over your own intemperance...
Page 64 - ... the same principle by which we rejoice at the remuneration of merit will teach us to relish the disgrace and discomfiture of vice, which is always an example of extensive use and influence, because it leaves a deep impression of terror upon the minds of those who were not confirmed in the pursuit of morality and virtue, and while the balance wavers, enables the right scale to preponderate.

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