"Secondly, Those Characters sink deeper into the Mind of the Reader, and stamp there a perfect Idea of the very Turn of Thought, by which the Originals were actuated, and diversified from each other."
— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Work Title
Date
w. c. 1748
Metaphor
"Secondly, Those Characters sink deeper into the Mind of the Reader, and stamp there a perfect Idea of the very Turn of Thought, by which the Originals were actuated, and diversified from each other."
Metaphor in Context
Secondly, Those Characters sink deeper into the Mind of the Reader, and stamp there a perfect Idea of the very Turn of Thought, by which the Originals were actuated, and diversified from each other. This must greatly add to the Pleasure of reading, when a Gentleman or Lady can readily say, upon hearing a single Paragraph, "This is the accomplished Clarissa; This the spirited and friendly Miss Howe; This the supercilious Pedant Brand; This the humane and reclaiming Belford; This the daring, learned, witty, and thence dangerous Libertine Lovelace:" And so of the rest.
(p. 13)
(p. 13)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Deidre Lynch's "Personal Effects and Sentimental Fictions," Eighteenth-Century Fiction 12:2 (2000): 352.
Citation
Samuel Richardson, Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript, introd. R. F. Brissenden (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and Augustan Reprint Society, 1964). <Link to PGDP edition>
Date of Entry
05/09/2012
