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SICILY AND MALTA. 217
by a kind of sympathy through the
whole.
In such an assembly, it was imposiible
for the heart not to dilate and expand it-
self;—I own mine was often so full, that
I could hardly find utterance ; and I have
seen a tragedy with less emotion than I
did this scene of joy.---I always thought
these affections had been strangers to pomp
and parade; but here the universal joy
seemed really to spring from the heart: it
brightened up every countenance, and
spoke assection and friendihip from every
sace.—.No statcly air,—nosuperciliouslook;
—all appeared sriends and equals.-—And
lure I am, that the beauty of the ladies was
not hals so much heightened either by
their dress or their jewels, as by that air
os complacency and good humour with
which it was animated.
We
by a kind of sympathy through the
whole.
In such an assembly, it was imposiible
for the heart not to dilate and expand it-
self;—I own mine was often so full, that
I could hardly find utterance ; and I have
seen a tragedy with less emotion than I
did this scene of joy.---I always thought
these affections had been strangers to pomp
and parade; but here the universal joy
seemed really to spring from the heart: it
brightened up every countenance, and
spoke assection and friendihip from every
sace.—.No statcly air,—nosuperciliouslook;
—all appeared sriends and equals.-—And
lure I am, that the beauty of the ladies was
not hals so much heightened either by
their dress or their jewels, as by that air
os complacency and good humour with
which it was animated.
We