Sanditon: Diplomatic DisplayCambridgeKing's College Cambridge, No Accession Number
Campbell in his pleasures of Hope hastouched
the extreme of our Sensations —" Like Angel's visits, few & far
between." Can you conceive any thing more sub::duing, more melting, more fraught
withthe deep Sublime than that Line? – ButBurns — I confeſs my sense of his Pre-e::minence Miſs H.Heywood — If Scott has a
fault,it is the want of Paſsion. — Tender, Elegant,Descriptive – but Tame. — The Man whocannot do justice to the attributes of Womanis my contempt. – Sometimes
indeed a flashof feeling seems to irradiate himScott — as inthe Lines we
were speaking of. –"Oh! Womanin our hours of Ease–––". But
Burns isalways on fire. – His Soul was the Altarin which lovely Woman sat
enshrined,his Spirittruly breathed the immortal Incencewhich is her Due.–––" "I have read severalof Burn'sPoems with great delight, said
Charlotte as soon as she had time to speak, but I am not
poetic enough to separatea Man'sPoetry entirely from his Cha::racter; – & poor Burns's known Irregu::larities, greatly interrupt my
enjoymentof his Lines. — I a have1 difficulty
in dependingon the Truth of his Feelings as a Lover.I have not faith in the sincerity of theaffections of a
Man of his Description. Hefelt & he wrote & he
forgot." "Oh! no
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