The Young Lady's Pocket Library (1793) [ Practices ]
… any person of sentiment and humour as the theatre. But I am sorry to say there are few -English comedies a lady can see, without a shockk to delicacy. You will not readily suspect the comments gentlemen make on your behaviour on such occasions. Men are often best acquainted with the most worthless of your sex, and from them too readily form their judgement of the rest. A virtuous girl often hears very indelicate things with a countenance nowise embarrassed, because in truth she does not underfstnd them. Yet this is, most ungenerously, …
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