| Tobias Smollett - 1797 - 612 páginas
...prudent mother, while {he admired the beauties of the facred writings, was convinced that, unreftricted, no reading more improper could be permitted a young...plainly and roundly by its name ; and the annals of, ai/rot/ul lunuld fcarcely furn'ijk a greater choice of indecent exprrj/ions. Yet this is the book which... | |
| PURSUITS. - 1798 - 422 páginas
...mother, while " fhe admired the beauties of the Sacred Writings, was con" vinced that, unreflrifled, no reading more improper could be " permitted a young...of the narratives can only " tend to excite ideas trie worft calculated ior a female breaft : " every thing is called roundly and plainly by its own... | |
| Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1891 - 448 páginas
...the narratives can only lend to excite ideas the worst caleulated for a female breast ; everything is called plainly and roundly by its name ; and the annals of a brothel would scarcely furnish a greater choice of indecent expressions. Yet this is the book which young women are... | |
| Patrick Brantlinger - 1998 - 270 páginas
...prudent mother, while she admired the beauties of the sacred writings, was convinced that, unrestricted, no reading more improper could be permitted a young woman. Many of the narratives can only lend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: every thing is called plainly and roundly... | |
| Rictor Norton - 2005 - 788 páginas
...prudent mother, while she admired the beauties of THE SACRED WRITINGS, was convinced, that unrestricted, no reading more improper could be permitted a young woman. Many of the narratives can only tend to extite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast; every thing is called roundly and plainly by... | |
| David Lorne Macdonald - 2000 - 340 páginas
...which 'Many of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: every thing is called plainly and roundly by its name; and the annals of a brothel would scarcely furnish a greater choice of indecent expressions.' It turns out, however, that Elvira has... | |
| Mary Wilson Carpenter - 2003 - 231 páginas
...manual." She tells Ambrosio, "No reading more improper could be permitted a young Woman. . . . Everything is called plainly and roundly by its name; and the annals of a Brothel would scarcely furnish a greater choice of indecent expressions."4 While free tracts and cheap bibles eliminated... | |
| Patrick R. O'Malley - 2006 - 16 páginas
...Ambrosio: "Many of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: every thing is called plainly and roundly by its name; and the annals of a brothel would scarcely furnish a greater choice of indecent expressions" (Lewis, The Monk, 259). 22 Coleridge condemns... | |
| Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1899 - 340 páginas
...prudent mother, while she admired the beauties of the sacred writings, was convinced that, unrestricted, no reading more improper could be permitted a young...of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast ; everything is called plainly and roundly by its name ; and the... | |
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