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Anna Howe, in Clarissa AMS Press (1990)Antony Harlowe, in Clarissa AMS Press (1990)as quoted in Samuel Richardson: A Biography T.C. Duncan Eaves and Ben D. Kimpel (1971)Belford, in Clarissa AMS Press (1990)Charlotte Grandison, in Sir Charles Grandison Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986)

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Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). Charlotte Grandison, in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 6, letter 45, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).

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