human
I heartily despise him, and eagerly read him, nay, sob over his works in a most scandalous manner. This merely because of the parallel some of the heroine's circumstances afforded to those of her own youth, for neither Miss Howe nor even Clarissa herself found favour in her eyes. She was one of the very few readers of Richardson who saw the faultiness of the moral of both _Pamela_ and _Clarissa Harlowe_, considering them
gpt
Her sound common sense made her heartily despise any excess of that sensibility which Richardson's works fostered. Her verdict of _Sir Charles Grandison_ was even more crushing.
human
His conduct (towards Clementina) puts me in mind of some ladies I have known who could never find out a man to be in love with them, let him do or say what he would, till he made a direct attempt, and then they were so surprised, I warrant you! nor do I approve Sir Charles's offered compromise (as he calls it). There must be a great indifference to religion on both sides, to make so strict a union as marriage tolerable between people of such distinct persuasions. He seems to think women have no souls, by agreeing so easily that his daughters should be educated in bigotry and idolatry.