... which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude : it is not retreat,... the monthly review - Page 433by SEVERAL HANDS - 1759Full view - About this book
| Emily Auerbach - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 364 pages
...find a perfect description of someone like Aunt Norris: "To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude; it is not retreat but exclusion from... | |
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