Sue Anderson
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807 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
Sue Anderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The subject matter of these formed my taste, was swallowed with avidity, and inspired me with a degree of enthusiasm.
Which awakes even at the present day.
on hearing a new and interesting work read.
These, however, were soon laid aside for novels and romances, several hundred volumes of which I procured and got read in the course of three years and
But although there are few passages out of all I heard then that
Which I think worth a place in my recollection now.
Yet at that time I was well acquainted with the most interesting characters and events contained in these works.
My present dislike to this kind of reading I do not entertain without reason.
For first a great deal of precious time is thereby spent that might be more usefully employed than
Secondly, the judgment is left without exercise, while the passions are inflamed.
And thirdly, those who are much in the habit of novel reading seldom have a taste for books of any other kind, and hence their judgments of men and things must differ as far from his who has seen the world as most novels differ from real life.
I am well aware that some of them are well written.
and displayability in the author.
Have the circumstances well disposed, the characters ablely delineated, and the effect preserved till the final close of the last scene, which generally proves interesting and affecting.
But to what does all this tend?
Except in recording the customs and manners of the times which they represent.
Only.
To mislead the imagination.
To foster a morbid sensibility to fictitious woe.
and a romantic admiration of ideal and unattainable perfection.
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