Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 19. August 1689 |
Geburtsort | Mackworth, Derbyshire, England |
Todesort | Parsons_Green |
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Beschreibung | Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). He printed almost 500 works, including journals and magazines, working periodically with the London bookseller Andrew Millar. Richardson had been apprenticed to a printer, whose daughter he eventually married. He lost her along with their six children, but remarried and had six more children, of which four daughters reached adulthood, leaving no male heirs to continue the print shop. As it ran down, he wrote his first novel at the age of 51 and joined the admired writers of his day. Leading acquaintances included Samuel Johnson and Sa |
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
