tragedy-pride

Updated: June 5, 2025

My brother thought fit to tell the good woman, that her whining nonsense did but harden me. There was a perverseness, he said, in female minds, a tragedy-pride, that would make a romantic young creature, such a one as me, risque any thing to obtain pity.

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1