The Sentimental Sailor (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Mercer, Thomas

 
9780656390861: The Sentimental Sailor (Classic Reprint)

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The Author of the following Poem, his imagination t iiiiil warm from a firfi reading of the Nouvelle Heloife,com gelled, in a manner, by the irrefifiible impulfe of awaken ed fenfibility, has prefumed to trace, though with a trem bling hand, a few of the firokes, equallybold and deli cate, of this celebrated writer. His theme is ST preux,' paffiouate, vehement, tender, fentimental - making with Lord Anfon the tour of the globe, to recover his difirac ted mind by the view of the grandefl fight the eye of man can behold. - St Preux, full of. That noble elevation, R that fierté of foul; natural to a great charat'ter demefied by fortune, but not the lefs confcious of its worth - ¥st Preux, lconfiautly purfiued by the image of his miflrefs, whom. He cannot renounce,-feeing nothing in the' univerfebut Eloifa, his.lofi, loll Eloifa.

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