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Work title:
"Evelina, or, a Young Lady's Entrance into the World"
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Date: 1778, 1779
"Indeed, I could but ill support her former yearly visits to the respectable mansion at Howard Grove; pardon me, dear Madam, and do not think me insensible of the honour which your Ladyship's condescension confers upon us both; but so deep is the impression which the misfortunes of her mother hav...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"But I am happy to observe, that he seems to have made no impression upon your heart, and therefore a very little care and prudence may secure you from those designs which I fear he has formed."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"For, when I observed the artless openness, the ingenuous simplicity of her nature; when I saw that her guileless and innocent soul fancied all the world to be pure and disinterested as herself, and that her heart was open to every impression with which love, pity, or art might assail it."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"For oh, if this weak heart of mine had been penetrated with too deep an impression of his merit,--my peace and happiness had been lost for ever!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
