Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Select Bibliography
- Note on the Text
- The Invisible Spy
- BOOK I
- BOOK II
- VOL. II
- BOOK III
- BOOK IV
- VOL. III
- BOOK V
- BOOK VI
- BOOK VII
- CHAP. I The Author, contrary to his expectation, finds himself under a necessity of making an introductory Preface to this Volume, and at the same time presents the Reader with two letters of a pretty extraordinary nature
- CHAP. II The Author flatters himself will be no unacceptable present to all those of the fair sex, who are either truly innocent, or would preserve the reputation of being so
- CHAP. III Presents the reader with the catastrophe of an adventure very different from what the beginning may have given him reason to expect
- CHAP. IV Contains the rehearsal of a conversation which the Author accidentally happen'd to be witness of, and looks upon himself as bound by an indispensible obligation to make public; though perfectly conscious, from his observations of mankind, that there are a very great many of his readers who will labour all they can to bring these pages into discredit
- CHAP. V Presents the reader with the detail of a very remarkable incident, which, I believe, if consider'd with a due attention, there are but few people, especially of the Fair Sex, who will not find themselves enabled to become better members of society by having perused
- CHAP. VI Which, according to the Author's opinion, stands in no need of a prelude, as it contains only the sequel of an adventure too interesting to all degrees of people not to demand the attention of every reader
- CHAP. VII Is somewhat more concise than ordinary, but very much to the purpose, and will be found not the least worthy of any in the book of being regarded with attention
- CHAP. VIII Presents the public with the account of an incident which cannot but be deeply affecting to the youth of both sexes, and no less remarkable in its event than any the Author's Invisibilityship ever enabled him to discover
- BOOK VIII
- Editorial Notes
- Silent Corrections
CHAP. VI - Which, according to the Author's opinion, stands in no need of a prelude, as it contains only the sequel of an adventure too interesting to all degrees of people not to demand the attention of every reader
from BOOK VII
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Select Bibliography
- Note on the Text
- The Invisible Spy
- BOOK I
- BOOK II
- VOL. II
- BOOK III
- BOOK IV
- VOL. III
- BOOK V
- BOOK VI
- BOOK VII
- CHAP. I The Author, contrary to his expectation, finds himself under a necessity of making an introductory Preface to this Volume, and at the same time presents the Reader with two letters of a pretty extraordinary nature
- CHAP. II The Author flatters himself will be no unacceptable present to all those of the fair sex, who are either truly innocent, or would preserve the reputation of being so
- CHAP. III Presents the reader with the catastrophe of an adventure very different from what the beginning may have given him reason to expect
- CHAP. IV Contains the rehearsal of a conversation which the Author accidentally happen'd to be witness of, and looks upon himself as bound by an indispensible obligation to make public; though perfectly conscious, from his observations of mankind, that there are a very great many of his readers who will labour all they can to bring these pages into discredit
- CHAP. V Presents the reader with the detail of a very remarkable incident, which, I believe, if consider'd with a due attention, there are but few people, especially of the Fair Sex, who will not find themselves enabled to become better members of society by having perused
- CHAP. VI Which, according to the Author's opinion, stands in no need of a prelude, as it contains only the sequel of an adventure too interesting to all degrees of people not to demand the attention of every reader
- CHAP. VII Is somewhat more concise than ordinary, but very much to the purpose, and will be found not the least worthy of any in the book of being regarded with attention
- CHAP. VIII Presents the public with the account of an incident which cannot but be deeply affecting to the youth of both sexes, and no less remarkable in its event than any the Author's Invisibilityship ever enabled him to discover
- BOOK VIII
- Editorial Notes
- Silent Corrections
Summary
I was truly concern'd at the injustice which I perceived poor Deidamia sustained, and but little pleas'd with eutracia, either for the information she had given her of it, or for advising her to detect Meroveus in the manner concerted between them; – indeed, I fear'd that the consequences of such an interview would be only to make the husband become more harden'd in his guilt, and her affliction increase by finding her resentment disregarded.
Few men can bear reproofs, much less reproaches; – if ever they quit a darling folly the reformation must come of themselves: – it must proceed from a consciousness they have done amiss, not from being told so by others; – there is a pride in human nature which disdains admonition, and makes us persist in error, which, if not taken notice of, perhaps in time we might discover to be such, grow ashamed of, and amend.
Besides, remonstrances from a person whom we look upon as any way our inferior, either in point of understanding or circumstances, will be so far from having any weight, that they will rather add to our contempt, and, it may be, raise in us an utter aversion to the giver: – Custom has made the husband so much the head of the wife, that, tenacious of his authority, it is but seldom that he submits to be influenced by her in matters of much less moment to him than his pleasures.
Indeed, when a woman is wrong'd in the manner Deidamia was, it must be confess'd that the shock is greatly trying, and that she has the strongest reason for complaining; – yet will she still find it most prudent to forbear: – love and gentleness are the only weapons by which that sex can hope to conquer, and she who attempts to have recourse to any other only hurts herself.
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- The Invisible Spyby Eliza Haywood, pp. 396 - 404Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014