“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
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she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.
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