![]() What seems to be suggested in this piece, then, is that a more ‘cultivated’ Of feeling not always easily contained within the latter. The terminological complexities implicit here, and referred to in the Introduction, we can use ‘sentimental’ bothĪs the adjective that can accompany ‘sensibility’, and as a problem term that can hint at the presence of a province ![]() It actually reveals this as an embodiment of a whole culture of sensibility, and hints at some of the accompanying tensions. While this is ostensibly ‘only’ about conversation, Here fancy flourishes, – the sensibilities expand – and wit, guided byĭelicacy and embellished by taste – points to the heart. Imagination, are brought forward they are discussed in a kind of sportive way, with animation and refinement, and are neverĬontinued longer than politeness allows. Which is the result of high cultivation … In sentimental conversation, subjects interesting to the heart, and to the Good sense, lively feeling, and natural delicacy of taste, must be united an expansion of mind, and a refinement of thought, ![]() To render us susceptible of the charms, and to qualify us for the practice of the second class of conversation … To It is the province of the familiar, to diffuse cheerfulness and ease – to open the heart of man to man, and to beamĪ temperate sunshine upon the mind. Conversation may be divided into two classes – the familiar and the sentimental.
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