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Excerpt from The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandson, Vol. 1 of 6: Selected From the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to Which Are Prefixed a Biographical Account of That Author, and Observations on His Writings
Tion, together with the grave impressive moral resulting from the whole, imply ta Ients of the highest order, and ought to command our warmest praise. There is no walk in which taste and genius have more distinguished themselves, or in which virtuous and noble sentiments have come outwith greater lustre, than in the splen did fictions, or pathetic tales, with which France, Germany, Switzerland, and our own country, have adorned the annals of their literature. A history of romance Writing, under all its various forms, would be an acceptable present to the public, if given by a man of taste and sufficient reading: But there are some periods which make, as it were, a new era in this kind of writing, and those productions are more particularly deserving our attention which stand at the head of a class, and have di verted the taste_of the public into some new channel. Of this kind are the writings of Mr. Richardson, whose name, on the.
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