Quotes from Frances Burney's books, and about them
Camilla on The Seasons: “She stole softly round to look over the shoulder of the reader, and her respect for his raptures increased, when she saw they were raised by Thomson's Seasons.”
Camilla on Eclogues: “A circumstance in the scenery before him now struck Dr. Orkborne with some resemblance to a verse in one of Virgil's Eclogues, which he thought might be happily applied to illustrate a passage in his own work;”
Camilla on Absalom and Achitophel: “He's every thing by turns, and nothing long. [Footnote 3: Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel.]”
Camilla on Othello: “The play was Othello; and so miserably represented, that Lavinia would willingly have retired after the first scene:”
Camilla on Macbeth: “And Amelia was fain to content herself with the habit of the first witch in Macbeth.”
Camilla on Hamlet: “Camilla recollected her own'almost blunted purpose,' and fearfully asked if their Mother were yet at Belfont. [Footnote 6: Hamlet]”
Northanger Abbey on Camilla: “It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in…”
Northanger Abbey on Cecilia: “It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in…”