The Letters of a Solitary Wanderer: The story of Edouarda

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Sampson Low, 1800

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Сторінка 64 - Seldom he fmiles ; and fmiles in fuch a fort, As if he mock'd himfelf, and fcorn'd his fpirit That could be mov'd to fmile at any thing.
Сторінка 3 - House 0793)assured her readers that " should I meet with either ghost or banditti, I will not fail to engage them to Deepen the horror of the falling floods, And breathe a browner horror on the woods," as well as in " any novel in the very newest taste.
Сторінка 186 - ... After attacking the bourgeois conception of Americans as wild men and good-for-nothings, Mrs. Smith goes on to establish an ideal American type in The Solitary Wanderer (1800). Mr. Warren had seen a great deal of the world, about which he had now been wandering some years, partly for his own amusement and partly on the public affairs of America, for he was a native of that continent. His mind was the most enlightened I had ever observed. Considering himself as a citizen of the world, and all...
Сторінка 3 - My hills will boldly swell, my woods wave over as many nightingales as I can collect, my castles frown, and my streams fall, or murmur, or glitter, as luxuriously, and as frequently, as if I were the wandering and persecuted heroine of a modern novel in the very newest taste.
Сторінка 186 - ... continent. His mind was the most enlightened I had ever observed. Considering himself as a citizen of the world, and all mankind as his brethren, his whole business seemed to be to counteract the ill effects of all those prejudices which teach them only to tear and destroy each other. Speaking several languages with equal facility, and having made the general forms of government as well as the passions of individuals his study, he was possessed of the means of doing a great deal of good, and...
Сторінка 25 - ... necromancers and genii, then to collect, as Richardson does, a set of characters acting and speaking so exactly as such people so circumstanced would act and speak in real life, that we almost doubt whether the scenes and the actors are merely imaginary. It is true, that the minuteness of description, to which this powerful deception is in a great degree owing, renders some of the letters excessively tedious; but the pleasure that Richardson's writings still afford, through many revelations,...
Сторінка 3 - And breathe a browner horror on the woods," as well as in " any novel in the very newest taste." In Rural Walks (1 800), " Dialogues intended for the use of young persons...

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