Charlotte Smith

“ She knew that Walsingham was reckoned a man of the first understanding and information, and was fully persuaded that Rosalie's youth and beauty would be weak attractions, when opposed to her charms, and those talents, which alone, she thought had power to fix a man of his genius. ”

“ For she is writing something wherein she thought the wonders of nature might assist her imagination.....We were sitting pensively together my friend invoking the muse!—and I waiting in silence the happy effusions of her fine fancy, when we were struck with pleasing surprise on hearing the beautiful lines you recited. ”

“ May the bearer of this bring me as favourable an account of your health and spirits as can be expected after the just concern you have so recently felt:—I hope you were not terrified by the tempest of last night. It overtook me on a place so wild and dreary, that I cold have supposed it the scene where Shakespeare imagined the meeting between Macbeth and the Weird Sisters. The spot I allude to is a wide down ”

“ One of them suddenly advancing to Walsingham, said, "Upon my honour, my dear Sir, you must excuse me if I break through common rules:—but I do so doat on talents—I am such an enthusiast in regard to poetry!——Your name is Walsingham, I think—I have often had the happiness of hearing you, and once of seeing you, at dear Mrs. ”

“ But he was at this time so disgusted with her folly, and so impatient at being thus broke in upon, that nothing less than the consideration of her being a woman, and in inferior circumstances, (for she was a humble dependent on the scientific dames of better fortune) , could have induced him to even the little show of civility with which he answered—"That it was his misfortune to have forgotten Lady Llancarrick, owing, perhaps, to his long residence in other countries."——"Oh! ”