![]() ![]() She was anxious to do justice to her conception, and recommenced and revised the manuscript several different times. The composition had been in progress for a period of twelve months. The purpose and structure of the following work, had long formed a favourite subject of meditation with its author, and she judged them capable of producing an important effect. There is a sentiment, very dear to minds of taste and imagination, that finds a melancholy delight in contemplating these unfinished productions of genius, these sketches of what, if they had been filled up in a manner adequate to the writer's conception, would perhaps have given a new impulse to the manners of a world. There are few, to whom her writings could in any case have given pleasure, that would have wished that this fragment should have been suppressed, because it is a fragment. THE PUBLIC are here presented with the last literary attempt of an author, whose fame has been uncommonly extensive, and whose talents have probably been most admired, by the persons by whom talents are estimated with the greatest accuracy and discrimination. ![]() Spellings as in the original are retained only obvious typographical errors have been corrected. ![]() ![]() This sometimes means that I have moved the text of the footnote to maintain proximity to the text to which it refers. In editing the electronic text I have put footnotes at the bottom of the paragraph to which they refer. ![]()
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