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Letters Addressed to Mrs. Pascoe, of St. Hilary Vicarage, Cornwall

Letters Addressed to Mrs. Pascoe, of St. Hilary Vicarage, Cornwall

Wood, Anna Maria

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1443238244
ISBN13: 9781443238243
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.19 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...Byron--that she was entering a tavern, and therefore stopped at the threshold. Surely I need not again protest that I mean no comparison derogatory to Miss D. We attach probably too high a value to external loveliness and grace, forgetting that wisdom alone is truly fair; and in this beauty Miss D. by your aceount equals your lost friend. Apropos of letters, I have bought the Correspondence and Diary of Doddridge in five large volumes. In Hannah More's correspondence, the language of compliment is sufficiently ridiculous, and a little surprising among the professors of humility--but what is pink in her letters is crimson in those of Doddridge, who lived a generation before her, when it would appear that the language used in common intercourse, particularly with women, was as stiff and gorgeous as the broad skirted coats and hoop petticoats. I am much amused by the names they assume and give in their epistolatory intercourse. One calls the other Antiochus, or Hortensius, or Cicero, and the ladies are addressed as Clio, and Philomela--their real names being Mrs Hannah and Elizabeth Clark. There are attempts at pleasantry too, which would amuse you by the want of correspondence between the intention and the result, but though the snail o'ertakes them in their wildest play, I am pleased to see how much trifling was considered innocent by a person than whom there was perhaps never one more filled with love to God and to man. I differ from, and dislike his creed, but admire the feeling of his religion. One or two of the chapters of his Rise, etc. (towards, I believe, the end) are beautiful. It is many years since I read them. What strange fashions there are in language, as well as in dress! This eminent divine, whilst attached ...

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