 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1799 - 442 pages
...pride of fine feeling, the romantic error of amiable minds. Thole who who really poflefs fenfibility, ought early to be taught, that it is a dangerous quality,, which is continually extrafting the excefs of mifery, or delight, from every furrounding circumftance. And, fince, in our... | |
 | 1820 - 344 pages
...said he, do not indulge in the pride of fine feeling, the romantic error of amiable minds. Those who really possess sensibility ought early to be taught...evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them. I know you will say... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 pages
...said he, do not indulge in the pride of fine feeling, the romantic error of amiable minds. Those who really possess sensibility ought early to be taught...evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them. I know you will say... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1826 - 836 pages
...he, ' " do not indulge in the pride of fine feeling, the romantic error of amiable minds. Those «ho really possess sensibility ought early to be taught that it is a dangerous quality, which ie continually extracting the excess of misery or delight from every surrounding circumstance. And... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1859 - 654 pages
...said he, do not indulge in the pride of fine feeling, the romantic error of amiable minds. Those who really possess sensibility, ought early to be taught...world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasingont;s, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1894 - 346 pages
...the forerunner of all those writers who cultivated sensibility,^ well denned by Mrs. Radcliffe as " a dangerous quality which is continually extracting...excess of misery or delight from every surrounding object," — the inaugurator of a century and a half of hyperaesthesia, A perfect chorus of applause... | |
 | Léonie Villard - 1924 - 266 pages
...Emily, do not indulge in the pride of fine feeling, the romantic error of amiable minds. Those who really possess sensibility ought early to be taught...excess of misery or delight from every surrounding * We find the orthodox view plainly set down in Mrs. Opie's AdeleineMowbray. " Her feelings of delicacy... | |
 | Steven Bruhm - 1994 - 210 pages
...all, ... do not indulge in the pride of fine feeling, the romantic error of amiable minds. Those, who really possess sensibility, ought early to be taught,...evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them. (79-80) While there... | |
 | Anne Williams - 2009 - 325 pages
...deathbed, "Do not indulge in the pride of fine feeling, the romantic error of amiable minds": Those, who really possess sensibility, ought early to be taught,...excess of misery, or delight, from every surrounding cirmcumstance. And, since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently... | |
 | Valeria Tinkler-Villani, Peter Davidson, Jane Stevenson - 1995 - 338 pages
...But the concept is rich in meaning: as Ann Radcliffe put it in The Mysteries of Udolpho, sensibility "is a dangerous quality, which is continually extracting...or delight, from every surrounding circumstance". 2 It is this very excess — of joy or, much more usually according to Radcliffe and the other Gothic... | |
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Above all, my dear Emily,' said he, 'do not indulge in the pride of fine feeling, the romantic error of amiable minds. Those who really possess sensibility ought early to be taught that it is a dangerous quality, which is continually extracting the excess... 
