Pamela Censured

Part 6

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Concerning "whether the 'Squire was not modest," _Pamela's Conduct in High Life_ explains that Mr. B "shews he had some Humanity, and was touch'd with Remorse at the Distress he himself occasioned. This, no doubt the Censurer, who seems as much divested of Humanity as a Stranger to Virtue or even Decency, blames the 'Squire for in his Heart, thinks him a silly Country Booby, a half-paced Sinner, a Milk-sop to be capable of Compassion, and no doubt would gladly have had him gone thorough, that he might have had the Pleasure of imaginary Pimping, and have _surfeited his Sight_" (I, xv-(xvi)).

31.6-32.19

Concerning this passage, _Pamela's Conduct in High Life_ sums up its argument by saying: "But this unfair Censurer fearing he has not yet warm'd the Imagination of his Readers, lays Pamela in a Posture, and particularizes her latent charms, _p._ 31, and then charges his own luxurious Fancy on the Author, as he calls the Editor" (I, [xvi]).

33.1-20

Quotation from Letter XVIII.

33.25-34.13

Quotation from Letter XIX. Concerning this passage, _Pamela's Conduct in High Life_ exclaims: "Pamela talks very rationally to Mrs. _Jervis_, foresees Consequences, and concludes, _she that can't keep her Virtue ought to live in Disgrace_. At this our Censurer cries out, _Fine Instructions truly!_" With this, _Pamela's Conduct in High Life_ makes its parting stab at _Pamela Censured_: "But it is impossible with Decency to follow this luscious Censurer, really I had scarce Patience to read, and therefore you will not expect me to rake longer in his Dirt. I have written enough to shew you of what Stamp are all the Calumniators of the virtuous _Pamela_. How sensual and coarse their Ideas, how inhumane their Sentiments, how immoral their Principles, how vile their Endeavours, how unfair their Quotations, how lewd and weak their Remarks" (I. [xvi]).

35.12-29

Quotation from Letter XXIV.

37.2-38.6

Quotation from Letter XXIV.

38.10-25

Quotation from Letter XXIV.

39.12-20

Quotation from Letter XXV.

39.24-40.10

Quotation from Letter XXV.

40.15-41.19

Quotation from Letter XXV.

42.2-17

Quotation from Letter XXV.

42.26-28

Quotation from Letter XXVII.

43.5-16

Quotation from Letter XXVII.

43.20-44.3

Quotation from Letter XXVII.

44.9-17

Quotation from Letter XXVII.

45.20-46.3

Quotation from Letter XXVII.

46.19-20

Reference to Letter XXIX.

46.26-48.4

Quotation from Letter XXX.

48.17-49.15

Quotation from the narrative break at the end of Letter XXXI.

50.3-13

Quotation from Letter XXXII.

50.15-25

Quotation from Letter XXXII.

51.10-14

Quotation from the journal entry for "TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY," the 6th and 7th days of "Bondage."

51.23-52.2

Quotation from the journal entry for "THURSDAY," the 8th day of "Bondage."

52.7-15

Quotation from the journal entry for "MONDAY, TUESDAY, _the 25th and 26th Days of my heavy Restraint_."

52.25-54.5

Quotation from the journal entry for "SATURDAY _Morning_," the 37th day of "Bondage."

55.10-60.4

Quotation from the journal entry for "TUESDAY _Night_," the 40th day of "Bondage."

61.18-62.2

Quotation from the journal entry for "WEDNESDAY _Morning_," the 41st day of "Bondage."

62.11-16

References to the journal entry for "SATURDAY, _Six o'Clock_," the 44th day of "Bondage."

63.2-6

Reference to the journal entry for "WEDNESDAY _Evening_," the night before Pamela's wedding.

63.10-11

Reference to the journal entry for "SUNDAY, _the Fourth Day of my Happiness_."