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The Maid of the Hamlet. A Tale. By Regina Maria Roche, Author of the Vicar of Lansdown. 2 Vols. 12mo. 6s. Long. 1793.
If there are those who can find amusement in these two volumes, sufficient to beguile the taedium of a rainy day, or the pain of a fit of the toothache, it is an amusement they may be allowed to take without scruple, provided only they forget them again by the next day; for as there is nothing in the story of the Maid of the Hamlet, which will contaminate the mind by passion through it, so neither [473] is there any thing which can possibly improve it by being retained there. Little inaccuracies of style in such a work, it would be hardly fair to notice, but we were surprized to meet with the phrase a beaux. [complete]
Provided by Julie A. Shaffer, January 2000
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