 | Ann Yearsley - 1785 - 168 pàgines
...The liberality of my friends leaves me no room to' doubt of fuccefs. — Preffing as her diftreffes are, if I did not think her heart was rightly turned, I mould be afraid of propofmg fuch a meafure, left it fhould unfcttle the fobriety of her mind, arid,... | |
 | John Jones - 1831 - 362 pàgines
...respect being rather those of superfluity than of want. " She thought her ear perfect, 128 ANN YEARSLEY. and the structure of her blank verse so happy and...did not think her heart was rightly turned I should ANN YEARSLEY. 129 be afraid of proposing such a measure, lest it should unsettle the sobriety of her... | |
 | Johanne Clare - 1987 - 248 pàgines
...poetry. I hope she is convinced that the making of verses is not the great business of human life ... Pressing as her distresses are, if I did not think...the laborious employments of her humble condition."" What was considered to be noble and important work for a gentleman (and for Hannah More) was, for this... | |
 | Mary Waldron - 1996 - 364 pàgines
...time. But her tone in the letter suggests that she thought of Yearsley as little better than a child: "Pressing as her distresses are, if I did not think...cannot mend her fortune without impairing her virtue." There is something here akin to fear of spoiling a child—or even a dog—by overindulgence. More... | |
 | William J. Christmas - 2001 - 382 pàgines
...confidently assures Yearsley's polite readers that they are doing the right thing in supporting her: Pressing, as her distresses are, if I did not think...cannot mend her fortune without impairing her virtue. 13 Thus More defines Yearsley's "virtue" in a class-specific way, in terms of her industry in performing... | |
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Pressing as her distresses are, if I did not think her heart was rightly turned I should be afraid of proposing such a measure, lest it should unsettle the sobriety of her mind, and, by exciting her vanity, indispose her for the laborious employments... 