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Date: 1782
"Had they mingled in the world, fed high their fancy with hope, and looked forward with expectation of enjoyment; had they been courted by the great, and offered with profusion adulation for their abilities, yet, even when starving, been offered nothing else!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)