"They compared this with the foregoing circumstance of the figure and the light which had appeared; their imaginations kindled wild conjectures, and they submitted their opinions to Madame, entreating her to inform them sincerely, whether she believed that disembodied spirits were ever permitted to visit this earth."
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). 