...imagination inflamed by an inceflant perufal of the improbable fxfh'on* of romance, a flight into the region* of metaphyfics muft rather be a dangerous excurfion....brought back to the plain path of common fenfe.' " I fhould hope," faid Doctor Orwell, " that a little reflection would make her fenfible of the fallacy...

...comments authoritatively on the heroine's errors: "To an imagination enflamed by an incessant perusal of the improbable fictions of romance, a flight into the regions of metaphysics must... be a dangerous excursion." 31 Bridgetina is represented as cultivating the excessive...