Jujubes and Aspirins
Bookish Matters
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
—Jane Austen,
Northanger Abbey
Thursday, May 5, 2011
cordial pleasure
She enjoyed the pensive luxury of virtuous grief, which mitigates the sharp
With gracious drops
Of cordial pleasure.
—Regina Maria Roche, quoting Akenside in her
Children of the Abbey
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