text:  Who has not shed previous and heart-improving tears over it? Taking up the tale now for the hundredth time we are become from somewhat morose tender as a lamb--propitious condition for a critic! We opened upon the scene where Mr Burchell so cruelly tries poor Sophia by offering her a husband in Mr Jenkinson; we know the whole transaction perfectly the bitter joke the proposal "impares Formas atque animas in juga ahenea Saevo mittere cum joco