LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETOR, BY LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS; APPLETON AND CO., NEW YORK. Expect not, gentle readers, here to find Some wild romance,—effusion of a mind Imbued with pictures, which dark fancies give;— My Heroine, like yourselves doth act and live. No scenes of terror here you’ll see portrayed, To shock the feelings of a timid maid. No scowling wretches here with purpose dire, With dark-laid plots and fiendlike men conspire. No women, who, forgetful of their sex, Yielding to passion’s sway, their hearts perplex. No tyrant father, and no mother cross; No gamester desperate with heavy loss. No rivals using every wicked art, To rob a damsel of her lover’s h…
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