Genre:

Regular Feature, Extract, Miscellaneous

Publications extracted:

National Magazine

Subjects:

Feeling, Instruments

    The writer observes: 'The very feelings which in bygone days have endeared us to fond hearts and gentle spirits, may be perhaps those most calculated to estrange the affections of others; the animal spirits whose flow may have gladdened a fond circle, fail, or become enfeebled beneath a sense of isolation [...]; the character is formed by circumstances; they act as a thermometer to inhabit its several changes and gradations' (337).