pretty-named

Updated: June 13, 2025

A poet, my dear, would not have gone to work for an Angelica, without giving her her Violetta, her Cleante, her Clelia, or some such pretty-named confidant an old nurse at the least. I read to my mother several passages of your letters. But your last paragraph, in your yesterday's quite charmed her. You have won her heart by it, she told me.

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2