It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.