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John Milton : Prose writings
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 1 June 1730: 'It pleases me, but does not surprise me at all, that your sentiments concerning Milton's prose writings, agree with those I threw out, under influence of that back-handed inspiration, which his malevolent genius had filled me with, as I drew in the bad air of his pages [...] One might venture on a very new use of two writers: I would pick out my friends and my enemies, by setting them to read [italics]Milton[end italics] and [italics]Cowley[end italics]. I might take it for granted, that I ought to be afraid of his [italics]heart[end italics], who, in the fame and popularity of the first, could lose sight of his malice and wickedness.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Aaron Hill Print: Unknown
: Leonidas
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 14 April 1737: 'I thank you for the pleasure I have received from Leonidas, which excellent poem I herewith return you. I am told that the author is young; and I gather comfort, in his right, for the rising generation.'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Aaron Hill
: 'folio'
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 6 July 1738: 'I will carefully and speedily return the folio with which you so kindly surprised me. It promises me, as I turn the leaves transiently over, a good deal of pleasure in the perusal.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Aaron Hill Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Pamela
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740: 'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will be as hard to express, as the beauties of Pamela. Though I opened this powerful little pie with more expectation than from common designs of like promise, because it came from your hands for my daughters, yet who could have dreamed he should find, under the modest disguise of a novel, all the soul of religion, good breeding, discretion, good-nature, wit, fancy, fine thought and morality? I have done nothing but read it to others, and have others again read it to me, ever since it came into my hands [...] if I lay the book down, it comes after me. When it has dwelt all day long upon the ear, it takes possession, all night, of the fancy [goes on to request that Richardson let him know the name of the author, saying 'since I feel him the friend of my soul, it would be a kind of violation to pretend him a stranger']'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Aaron Hill Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Pamela
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 29 December 1740: 'We have a lively little boy in the family [...] quite unfriended, and born to no prospect. He is the son of an honest, poor soldier [...] the boy [...] is so pretty, so gentle, and gay-spirited, that we have made him, and designed him, our own, ever since he could totter and aim at words [...] He is an hourly foundation for laughter [...] ever since my first reading of Pamela, he puts in for a right to be one of her hearers; and, having got half her sayings by heart, talks in no other language but hers; and what really surprises, and has charmed me into a certain foretaste of her influence, he is, at once, become fond of his books, which (before) he could never be brought to attend to -- that he may read Pamela, he says, without stopping. The first discovery we made of this power, over so unripe and unfixed an attention, was one evening, when I was reading her reflections at the pond to some company. The little rampant intruder [...] had crept under my chair, and was sitting before me on the carpet [...] on a sudden we heard a succession of heart-wrenching sobs, which, while he strove to conceal from our notice, his little sides swelled as though they would burst [...] All the ladies in the company were ready to devour him with kisses, and he has since become doubly a favourite, and is, perhaps, the youngest of Pamela's conquests.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Aaron Hill Print: Book
: newspapers
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 April 1741: 'I am so hid among green leaves and blossoms, that I read or see nothing that busies the public, except now and then a few newspapers; but even from those I have the joy to discern the justice that is done to your Pamela [novel]'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Aaron Hill Print: Newspaper
Samuel Richardson : Pamela (two sheets from part II)
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1741: 'A thousand thanks are due to you for the two delightful sheets of Pamela, part II. Where will your wonders end? [goes on to praise text further]'
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