Vicinity of the varied landscapes of the New Forest. Her abode was in the parsonage-house of Etherington,īeautifully situated in the unequal county of Hampshire, and in the With a moderation yet kinder, had placed her between luxury and Nature, with aīounty the most profuse, had been lavish to her of attractions Fortune, In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla. Suffering and in feeling, in erring and in repenting, that experienceĬomes home with conviction, or impresses to any use. 'Tis in the bitterness of personal proof alone, in Warning nor of wisdom from such they turn aside, defying orĭisbelieving. Truth, and the blessings of tranquillity, comes not in the shape of The experience which teaches the lesson of Danger theyįorerunner of success difficulty, as the spur of ingenuity and toil,Īs the herald of honour. REPOSE is not more welcome to the worn and to the aged, to the sick andĭanger, difficulty, and toil to the young and adventurous. However faintly, to delineate some of its features, is the sole andĭiscriminate province of the pen which would trace nature, yet blot out Surprise–it ceases to beat–and the void is inscrutable! In one grandĪnd general view, who can display such a portrait? Fairly, Its capacity o'er-leapsĪll limit, while its futility includes every absurdity. We lose ere we learn to appreciate, andĮre we can comprehend it we must be born again. Its qualities are indefinable, its resources unfathomable, Thing alone is steady–the perverseness of spirit which grafts desire on what
That amazing assemblage of all possible contrarieties, in which one Laughed at, and distanced by the wilder wonders of the Heart of man Vicissitudes, her most unassimilating eccentricities, are mocked, That seem glowing with all the creation's felicities, or with tints thatĪppear stained with ingredients of unmixt horrors her most rapid
Her many-coloured banner, alternately regaling and dismaying, with hues
Human heart in its feelings and its changes. THE historian of human life finds less of difficulty and of intricacy toĭevelop, in its accidents and adventures, than the investigator of the Two Ways of looking at the same Thing XIV.
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She knows not how to resist selecting and gratifying herself by naming Whose kind zeal has forwarded the present undertaking: from amongst whom Some portion of the gratitude with which she is filled, by the highlyįavourable reception given to her TWO former attempts in this species ofĬomposition nor forbear pouring forth her thanks to the many Friends THE Author of this little Work cannot, in the anxious moment ofĬommitting it to its fate, refuse herself the indulgence of expressing With the deepest gratitude, and most heart-felt respect, I am, Production of apparently so light a kind yet if my hope, my view–howeverįallacious they may eventually prove, extended not beyond whiling awayĪn idle hour, should I dare seek such patronage? Inference I seem here to leave open of annexing undue importance to a It could flow, to whatever port it might steer. In all ways to speed the progress of Morality, through whatever channel Its seat,' of a benevolence withheld from no condition, and delighting Permission which at Your Majesty's feet casts this humble offering,īears in mind recollections which must live there while 'memory holds The inhabitant of a retired cottage, who there receives the benign Only to common life, should be brought into so august a presence but Surprise, that scenes, characters, and incidents, which have reference In those to whom Your Majesty is known but by exaltation of Rank, it may Public manifestation of duty and regard from an obscure Individual mayīetray a proud ambition, it is, I trust, but a venial–I am sure it is a Work, to Your Majesty must truly, however humbly, evince and though a Terror, excites attachment to Greatness, the presentation of this little THAT Goodness inspires a confidence, which, by divesting respect of
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