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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CIclia Is anotlrtr worthless'character that is drawn with infinite jpirit, and a thorough knowledge of liuninn nature. She brgan life as a sprightly, talking, flirting grrl, who passed for a wit and a beauty in the half-bred circles of the borough, and who, in laying herself out to entrap a youth of distinction, unfortunately fell a victim to his superior art, and forfeited her plnce in society. She then became the smart mistress of a dashing attorney?the'nt tried to teach a school?lived as the favourite of an innkeeper? let lodgings?wrote novels?set up a toyshop?and, finally, was admitted into the almshouse. There is nothing very interesting perhaps in such a story; but the details of it show the wonderful accuracy of the author's observation of chnrnctc-r, and give it, and many of his other pieces, a value of the same kind that somo pictures are thought to derive from the truth and minuteness of ihe anatomy which they display. There is something original, too, and well conceived, in the tenacity with which he represents tfiis frivolous person, as adhering to her paltry characteristics under every change of circumstances. The concluding view is as follows. c Now friendless, sick and old, and wanting bread, The first-born tears of fallen pride were shed?, True, bitter tears; and yet that woo-nded pride, Afnong the poor, for poor distinctions sigh'd. Though now her talcs were to her audience fit; Though loud her tones, and vulgar grown her wit; Though now her dress?(but let me not explain Tlie piteous patchwork of the needy-rain, The flirtish form to coarse materials lent, And one poor robe through fifty fashions sent); Though all within was sad, without was mean, ? Still 'twas her wish, her comfort to be seen: She would to plays on lowest ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217346917 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021734691X |
| Weight | 1.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.82 In |
| List Price | $31.54 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 370 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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