LETTERS

FROM

ELIZA to YORICK.

     My Bramin,

I RECEIVED your Sentimental Journ-
ey -- your immagination hath strange
powers -- it has awakened feelings in my
heart, which I never knew I possessed --
You make me vain -- you make me in
love with your own sensibility --

    I bedewed your pathetic pages with
tears -- but they were tears of pleasure --
my heart flowed through my eyes -- every particle of tenderness in my whole frame
was awakened. --

            C            You

    You take the surest method to im-
prove the understanding -- you convince
the reason, by thouching the soul. --

    Sure the greatest compliments an au-
thor can receive, are the fighs and tears
of his reader -- such sincere applause I
amply gave you.

    I beg, if you value me, that you will
not flatter me -- I am already too vain --
and praise from a man of sense is dan-
gerous.

    I am in the outmost extent of the word,
your

Cordial friend,

ELIZA