Volume 2

The eccentric mirror: reflecting a faithful and interesting delineation of male and female characters, ancient and modern, who have been particularly distinguished by extraordinary qualificatons, talents, and propensities, natural or acquired ... with a faithful narration of every instance of singularity, manifested in the lives and conduct of characters who have rendered themselves eminently conspicuous by their eccentricities ... / Collected and re-collected, from the most authentic sources, by G.H. Wilson. In four volumes.

  • Wilson, G. H.
Date:
1806-1807
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Credit: The eccentric mirror: reflecting a faithful and interesting delineation of male and female characters, ancient and modern, who have been particularly distinguished by extraordinary qualificatons, talents, and propensities, natural or acquired ... with a faithful narration of every instance of singularity, manifested in the lives and conduct of characters who have rendered themselves eminently conspicuous by their eccentricities ... / Collected and re-collected, from the most authentic sources, by G.H. Wilson. In four volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ease and sport to pain and the labour of thinking, •was the desire of pleasing her protector, and in tliis desire fear had a much larger share than af- fection. At length, discouraged by so many fruitless trials, he renounced all hope of moulding Sabrina into the being he had so fondly imaged, and relinquishing his intention of making hdr his wife, he placed her at a boarding-school in War- wickshire. % His confidence in the power of education be- gan to falter and his aversion to modern elegance subsided. During his residence in the vale of Stowe he had enjoyed daily opportunities of con- versing with the beautiful Miss Honora Sneyd, of Lichfield, the object of the inextinguishable passion of the gallant and unfortunate Major Andr6. The mental and personal accomplish- ments of this lady made such a deep impression on the heart of Mr. .Day, that he made her an offer of his hand. She admiretl his talents, re- spected his virtues, but found it impossible to love him, and candidly told him so. He now transferred his heart to her sister Elizabeth, a very engaging young lady, though far inferior to Honora, and she, with equal candor, acknow- ledged that she could have loved him, had he ac- quired the manners and habits of society, in- stead of those austere singularities for which he Avas remarkable. 7'o these our philosopher now began to ascribe all the disappointments he had hitberto experi- enced in love. He told Elizabeth, that, for her ] 0