Delphine, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1803 |
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... affections of the soul ; and novels de serve to be esteemed only when they appear what we may call a sort of confes . sion , snatched from those who have lived as well as from those who are to live . In an examination of the human heart ...
... affections of the soul ; and novels de serve to be esteemed only when they appear what we may call a sort of confes . sion , snatched from those who have lived as well as from those who are to live . In an examination of the human heart ...
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... affections which we would not feel if we did not with to display them . Re- finement , indeed , is so evident a proof of coldness , that it excludes the possibility of any powerful emotion ; but common expressions are as distant from ...
... affections which we would not feel if we did not with to display them . Re- finement , indeed , is so evident a proof of coldness , that it excludes the possibility of any powerful emotion ; but common expressions are as distant from ...
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... affections . But the best novels are those of the eighteenth century ! The English were the first who gave a moral object to these productions . They seek utility in every thing ; a dispo sition which is peculiar to a free people . They ...
... affections . But the best novels are those of the eighteenth century ! The English were the first who gave a moral object to these productions . They seek utility in every thing ; a dispo sition which is peculiar to a free people . They ...
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... affection of my friends ; but the praises bestowed on me here , leave at the bottom of my heart a sentiment of coldness and indifference which no pleasure arising from self - love can possibly alter . Notwithstanding any amusement I may ...
... affection of my friends ; but the praises bestowed on me here , leave at the bottom of my heart a sentiment of coldness and indifference which no pleasure arising from self - love can possibly alter . Notwithstanding any amusement I may ...
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... us , and let us unite our hearts by those affections which are common to us , and by the attachment which binds us both to your amiable mother . . DELPHINE D'ALBEMAR . LETTER II . MATILDA DE VERNON TO MADAME D'ALBEMAR . 8 DELPHINE .
... us , and let us unite our hearts by those affections which are common to us , and by the attachment which binds us both to your amiable mother . . DELPHINE D'ALBEMAR . LETTER II . MATILDA DE VERNON TO MADAME D'ALBEMAR . 8 DELPHINE .
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