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218 SURPLUS MACHINERY.
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recline and interjections on the sentimental , while the novels " Great , with Sensation their wealth " of last of dashes season in each and all
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mind duty , never and morals to read ; fiction and in , which the improving was believed p , " Tales injurious " which to the the of uvenile
young heroines were was allowed frequentl to y tried peruse , b , y the having moral to resist courage the seductions j
tatives of the popular of this romances of . thinking If there we are must any surviving at the same represen time
cure congratulate and their them way conscientious on the fact of disci the , les evil on having being worked relieved its from own p
_Novel the , danger s are become of an so encounter plentiful sufficient between and , for to the duty resist most and the part inclination , so tatio dull , .
that of a any pernicious one with amusement resolution could not well fail to temp have too n much intellito feel tempted by any attractions they
novels could offe wh r . en gence It the may usual seem strange laint to is speak of their of the exaggerated dullness of comp
sensationalism , but the two defects are ' far from incompatible ; excitement the more lavishly is made , use the of m the achinery more callous for producing le are terror rendered and peop
to its effectsuntil it becomes , as unimpressive as Professor with Pepper a ' simp s Ghost le , , collection and even professed of impossible novel events readers are each dissatisfied of which
betrays It is at not a g however lance its so destined much denouement the dulness . of , novels that we
general particular have to princi comp generation , p lain le determine of . , , for No taste one what would and shall fashion now give cal amusement l more Clarissa than to enter any any
" Evelina taining , and but it as is the something most grotesqu to boast e gothic of even dragon to have s have read a
which at charm so much unattainable the , author a yard , so has by no the thrown work neatest can a arabesques spark ever become of his carved valueless own by ori steam g into inal to toleration
are identity those . in The which comp a ilations few events which of have a certain no claim class , as madness
218 Surplus Machinery.
218 SURPLUS MACHINERY .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 218, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/2/
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