"Alas! how truly did he tell her, that the love of ornament creeps slowly, but surely, into the female heart;—that the girl who twines the lily in her tresses, and looks at herself in the clear stream, will soon wish that the lily was fadeless, and the stream a mirror."
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"The Rose of Fennock Dale", in S. C. Hall (ed.) The Amulet, or Christian and Literary Remembrancer (London, 1829), p. 204
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Anna Maria Hall
Anna Maria Hall (née Fielding; 6 January 1800 – 30 January 1881) was an Irish novelist who often published as "Mrs. S. C. Hall". She married Samuel Carter Hall, a writer on art, who described her in Retrospect of a Long Life, from 1815 to 1883. She was in Dublin, but left Ireland for England at the age of 15.
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