Evidence: | [Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:]
'I have received infinite pleasure, and something better, from the collection of sublime sentences which you have so ably made the divine Clarissa apply to in her deepest distresses.
'I am also much obliged to you for the little book, which seems composed with a pious spirit;
but I own calling them Psalms disappointed me. I never met with any composition, either as
paraphrase or imitation of those divine compositions, that I liked; they come so infinitely short
of the true sublime, that I should rather chuse a mere human composition in any other shape.
'I must also thank you for the canons of Mr Warburton's antagonist, which I had read before I
left London, but forgot to return you [sic]. They made me laugh: a great merit to us splenetic
folks!' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1750 and 14 Jul 1750 | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Anne Donnellan |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Samuel Richardson |
Title: | Clarissa |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 28379 | |
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Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | |
Title: | Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the original manuscripts, bequeathed by him to his family | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1804 | |
Vol: | 4 | |
Page: | 7-8 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Anna Laetitia Barbauld (ed.), Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the original manuscripts, bequeathed by him to his family (London, 1804), 4, p. 7-8, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28379, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
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