 | Charlotte Lennox - 1752 - 298 páginas
...Romances were real Pictures of Life, from them the drew all her Notions and Expectations. By them fhe was taught to believe, that Love was the ruling Principle of the World ; that every other Paffion was fubordinate to this ; and that it caufed all the Happinefs and Miferies of Life. Her Glafs,... | |
 | Charlotte Lennox - 1752 - 296 páginas
...Romances were real Pictures of Life,, from them fhe drew all her Notions and Expectations. By them fhe was taught to believe, that Love was the ruling Principle of the World ; that every other Paffion was fubordinate to this ; and that it caufed all the Happinefs and Mifcries of Life. Her Glafs,... | |
 | Charlotte Lennox - 1752 - 300 páginas
...Romances were real Pictures of Life, from them fhe drew all her Notions and Expectations. By them fhe was taught to believe, that Love was* the ruling Principle of the World; that every ether Paffion was fubordinate to this; and that it caufed all the Happinefs and Miferies ui Life. Her... | |
 | 1783 - 742 páginas
...romances were real piilures of life, from them the drew all her notions' andt expectations. By them Ihe was taught to believe, that love was the ruling principle of the world ; that every other paffion was lubordinate to this ; and that it cauled all the happinefs and miIcrifa of life. Htr glals,... | |
 | Nicolas Boileau Despréaux - 1902 - 300 páginas
...romance, and what was still more unfortunate, not in the original French, but very bad translations. Her ideas, from the manner of her life, and the objects...to this; and that it caused all the happiness and unhappiness of life." 1 There is a convenient edition in Mrs. Barbauld's British Novelists, London,... | |
 | Mary Anne Schofield - 1990 - 236 páginas
...country. Time is telescoped, and soon the reader is introduced to his teenaged daughter, Arabella, who "supposing Romances were real Pictures of Life, from them she drew all her Notions and Expectations" (7). By them she was taught to believe, that "Love was the ruling Principle of the World; that even'... | |
 | Jack Goody - 1998 - 328 páginas
...Charlotte Lennox, herself a novelist, observed in The Female Quixote (1750 [1989]: 7): 'By them [Romances] she was taught to believe, that love was the ruling...principle of the World; that every other Passion was subordinated to this; and that it caused all the Happiness and Miseries of Life.' In the nineteenth... | |
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Her ideas, from the manner of her life, and the objects around her, had taken a romantic turn; and, supposing romances were real pictures of life, from them she drew all her notions and expectations. By them she was taught to believe, that love was the... 