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(Review /
The False Friend: a Domestic Story, by
Mary Robinson)
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British Critic, 1799 |
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vol 14 p74-75 |
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If we were sometimes dissatisfied with the incidental tendency of sentiments, which occur in this writer's works, it is impossible [75] to deny her the praise of sensibility and taste. Her style is generally good, and her language often elegant. The merit of this work, if it does not exceed, is by no means inferior to that of her other productions of the same kind. But having so often exercised her pen in this way, she appears, in the present instance, to have been somewhat at a loss in her choice of names, otherwise such uncouth appellations as Lady Upas, Mrs. Blouzely, Lord Limingford, Mrs. Ferret, Miss Ashgrove, would not have been introduced.
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