The Emigrants: 1793This epistolary novel about British expatriates in Pittsburgh & Kentucky expresses the radical ideas on love, marriage, & divorce associated with the feminist movement. The introduction presents evidence in support of Mary Wollstonecraft's authorship. |
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... beauty , with all that foftnefs , with all that tenderness , and with all that brilliancy of fentiment , and vivacity of mind which is neceffary to polish our manners , and footh us in the lap of elegance and love , to a forgetfulness ...
... beauty , with all that foftnefs , with all that tenderness , and with all that brilliancy of fentiment , and vivacity of mind which is neceffary to polish our manners , and footh us in the lap of elegance and love , to a forgetfulness ...
Page 57
... beauty and confcious inno- cence , warmed the celeftial fire of love into the moft unbounded admiration . I felt for the first time in my life , my powers of utterance fufpended -I felt in the returning pulfations of her hand , the high ...
... beauty and confcious inno- cence , warmed the celeftial fire of love into the moft unbounded admiration . I felt for the first time in my life , my powers of utterance fufpended -I felt in the returning pulfations of her hand , the high ...
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... beauty , and infulted virtue mourns in fecret , that it is driven to extremes ; and when the bafe betrayer , feizes the opportunities which a brutish tyrant affords . him , that women of honour are hurried into the gulph of ruin . When ...
... beauty , and infulted virtue mourns in fecret , that it is driven to extremes ; and when the bafe betrayer , feizes the opportunities which a brutish tyrant affords . him , that women of honour are hurried into the gulph of ruin . When ...
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affectionate affure againſt amiable anſwer appeared Arl-ton aſked beauty begged bofom cafe Capt caufe cauſe charms circumftance conduct confequence confideration confidered converfation dear friend defire delicacy difpofition Eliza exiſtence fafe faid fame fecure feel feemed felicity fenfe fenfible fentiments fervant fettled fhall fhould fince fincerely firſt fituation focial fociety fome fomething foon forrow fortune foul fpirits friendſhip ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fupport fure fyftem Gilbert Imlay greateſt happineſs heart himſelf honour human Il-ray Imlay impoffible inftant intereſting Lady laft LETTER lively Lord Louiſville luftre manner Mary Wollstonecraft mifery Mifs Caroline mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary nefs obferved obliged paffed paffions perfon Pittſburg pleaſure poffible prefent promife purpoſe reafon received recollect reflect ſeems ſhall ſhe ſtate ſuch tender theſe thing thofe thoſe thought tion underſtanding uſeful vifit virtue whofe wiſh woman