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| | The Pamela Media Event |
 | | And secondly, to the young ladies that whatever beauties they discover to their lovers, provided they grant not the last favor, they only ensure their admirers the more; and by a glimpse of happiness captivate their suitor the better. |
 | | edition (February 14, 1741), composed mostly from excerpts of letters from Aaron Hill, responds to the letter of an anonymous critic of Pamela’s double entendres with an appalled determination to ignore its criticism: “[this is] too dirty for the rest of his Letter.... |
 | | In the occasions he is pleased to discover for jokes, I either find not, that he has any signification at all, or such vulgar, course-tasted allusions to loose low-life Idioms, that not to understand what he means, is both the cleanliest [sic], and prudentest [sic] way of confuting him.”(16) |
| dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu /WarnerTeach/RiseNovels/Pamela/PAMmedia.event.htm (846 words) |
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