 | Janet Todd - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 340 pages
...other blameable propensity in her whole composition.6 It begins in a sentimental generalisation: 'It was always my opinion, that fewer women were undone by love, than vanity.' Others follow: 'Love, when real, seldom fails of inspiring the breast that harbours it with an equal... | |
 | Christopher Flint - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 416 pages
...makes the moral purpose of the heroine's story clear in an authorial address that opens the text: "It was always my opinion, that fewer women were undone by love, than vanity; and that those mistakes the sex are sometimes guilty of, proceed, for the most part, rather from inadvertancy,... | |
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It was always my opinion, that fewer women were undone by love than vanity, and that those mistakes the sex are sometimes guilty of, proceed, for the most part, rather from inadvertency, than a vicious inclination. 