"But they were happy, for they knew not enough of the world seriously to regret the want of its enjoyments, though Julia would sometimes sigh for the airy image which her fancies painted, and a painful curiosity would arise concerning the busy scenes from which she was excluded."
A Sicilian Romance
At least 6 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1790, 1791, 1792, 1795, 1796).<br>
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Text from <u>A Sicilian Romance. By The Authoress of The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne</u> 2 vols. (London: Printed for T. Hookham, 1790). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=KlsmAAAAMAAJ">Link to volume I, 2nd edition in Google Books</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=y1omAAAAMAAJ">Volume II</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading in <u>A Sicilian Romance</u>, ed. Alison Milbank (Oxford and New York: OUP, 1993). 