MEDON.
If you please—I am prepared to listen in earnest.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] See Foster's Essay on the application of the word romantic—Essays, vol. I
[2] Correspondence, vol. iii.
[3] An Oriental proverb
[4] In our own time, Madame de Staël, Mrs. Somerville, Harriet Martineau, Mrs. Marcet; we need not go back to the Rolands and Agnesi, nor even to our own Lucy Hutchinson.