The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical by Mrs. Barbauld, Volume 24F. C. and J. Rivington, 1810 |
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... father , from all society , but allowed to amuse herself in an old library furnished with the works of those voluminous authors . Of course she VOL . XXIV , imbibes their sentiments , and at her father's death she.
... father , from all society , but allowed to amuse herself in an old library furnished with the works of those voluminous authors . Of course she VOL . XXIV , imbibes their sentiments , and at her father's death she.
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... father's death she comes out into the world , possessed of beauty and fortune , but with a profound ignorance of every circumstance of real life and manners . She fancies every man who speaks to her to be secretly in love with her , and ...
... father's death she comes out into the world , possessed of beauty and fortune , but with a profound ignorance of every circumstance of real life and manners . She fancies every man who speaks to her to be secretly in love with her , and ...
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... father ; and it is not to be doubted , but she would have made a great profi- ciency in all useful knowledge , had not her whole time been taken up by another study . From her earliest youth she had discovered a fond- ness for reading ...
... father ; and it is not to be doubted , but she would have made a great profi- ciency in all useful knowledge , had not her whole time been taken up by another study . From her earliest youth she had discovered a fond- ness for reading ...
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... father , or her own attend- ants . Her ideas , from the manner of her life , and the objects around her , had taken a romantic turn ; and supposing romances were real pictures of life , from them she drew all her notions and ...
... father , or her own attend- ants . Her ideas , from the manner of her life , and the objects around her , had taken a romantic turn ; and supposing romances were real pictures of life , from them she drew all her notions and ...
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... father . Her mind being wholly filled with the most extravagant expecta- tions , she was alarmed by every trifling incident ; and kept in a continual anxiety by a vicissitude of hopes , fears , wishes , and disappointments . CHAPTER II ...
... father . Her mind being wholly filled with the most extravagant expecta- tions , she was alarmed by every trifling incident ; and kept in a continual anxiety by a vicissitude of hopes , fears , wishes , and disappointments . CHAPTER II ...
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