...mature deliberation and advice of friends, you had resolved on the contrary.' ... If you disappoint me, attend to my curse : — -May the hatred of all the...ever be your portion ! and may your eyes never behold anything but age and deformity ! may you meet with applause only from envious old maids, surly bachelors,...

...to come to an unhappy end. " If you disappoint me ", she said in one of her innumerable letters, " attend to my curse : May the hatred of all the young,...ever be your portion, and may your eyes never behold anything but age and deformity I May you meet with applause only from envious old maids, surly bachelors...

...the young, beautiful and virtuous for ever be your portion, and may your eyes never behold anything but age and deformity ! May you meet with applause only from envious old maids, surly bachelors and tyrranical parents 1 and may you be doomed to the company of such, and after death may their ugly souls...

...twitter of agitation. " If you disappoint me," said " Mrs. Belfour " (for so she signed herself), " attend to my curse : May the hatred of all the young,...beautiful, and virtuous, for ever be your portion ! and 382 RICHARDSON AT HOME. may your eyes never behold anything but age and deformity ! may you meet with...

...threaten Richardson with an extraordinary "curse" if he "dare(d]" to "make Lovelace and Clarissa unhappy": "May the hatred of all the young, beautiful, and virtuous,...eyes never behold any thing but age and deformity!" (Barbauld, iv, 181). Lady Bradshaigh 's epistolary siege upon Richardson is well known. She herself...