 ... delusive hopes ; it clothes the world in the bright colours of its own fancy ; it refines what is coarse, it exalts what is mean ; it sees nothing but disinterestedness in friendship, it promises eternal fidelity in love. Even on the distresses of...  Striking likenesses; or, The votaries of fashion - Page 186by Louisa Sidney Stanhope - 1808Full view - About this book
 | James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1793 - 380 pages
...eternal fidelity in love. Even on the distrefses of its situation it can throw a certain romantic fhade of melancholy that leaves a man sad, but does not make him unhappy. But at a more advanced age, " the fairy visions fade," and he suiFers most deeply who has indulged... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - 418 pages
...eternal fidelity in love. Even on the distresses of its situation it can throw a certain romantic shade of melancholy, that leaves a man sad, but does not make him unhappy. But at a more advanced age, " the fairy visions fade," and he suffers most deeply, who has indulged... | |
 | Peter Armstrong Whittle - 1821 - 1042 pages
...eternal fidelity in love, even on the distresses of its situation it can throw a certain romantic shade of melancholy, that leaves a man sad, but does not make him unhappy. We have been powerfully attached to the reading of English history, such as Lyltleton, Hume, Smollet,... | |
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