Rosanne (Volume 2); Or, a Father's Labour Lost. in Three Volumes

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. 1814 Excerpt: ...cheerfulness, was again the pride of her father, who, in the unbounded admiration which the marchioness expressed for her, seemed to have an earnest of the applause of the world. To those who live in situations favoured with natural beauty, every admiring visitor is 'euphrasy and rue'-that is seen again, which had ceased to be seen; and the landscape is a new picture when we hear the question, 'Who can paint like Nature?' It was nearly a similar service which Madame D'Orsette rendered to the excellencies of her friend;.--nay, she did more than call attention--she gave the picture its proper varnish; and Bellarmine saw, daily, new shades of character in his daughter..i It was but a short time that he wished her to borrow graces from the marchioness: compared together, with the just deduction of parental love towards the one, and of 'sentiment' towards the other, there could be no question in adjudging the superiority; and Rosanne had as little cause as she had disposition, to he alarmed at the fascinations of her friend. Bellarmine's feelings did not blow as large bubbles as when they were preparing the gas for a longer period of delusion--they burst with the first inflation; and the marchioness was again in her proper place, that of polite friendly regard made cordial by a sense of obligation. How many such transient attempts to be foolish, occur daily in the penns of what is called society, where the necessity of filling up the outline of unwillingly still life, brings under the same roof, the cameos and intaglios, whose business it is to receive and to give impressions! If the wishes, the purposes, and projects of a set of speculating autumn-visitors in some fine houses, ranged themselves in legible characters on walls and draperies, the library would be ...