Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841. Electronic Edition.ISBN: 978-1-57085-181-0 |
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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington. Detail: painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, c. 1822
OF all passions, love is the most engrossing and the most superstitious. How often has a leaf, a star, a breath of wind, been held as an omen! It draws all things into somewhat of relation to itself: it is despotic, and jealous of all authority but its own: it bars the heart against the entrance of other feelings, and deems wandering thoughts its traitors.
Romance and Reality (1831), Volume II Chapter I |
Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841. General editor, Harriet Devine Jump. 6 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2005.
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