Fanny Burney

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    Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
    Fanny Burney (1752–1840)

    here in hell
    We’re drinking tea from a Grecian Urn long after
    Your Paphian Fanny let tubercles quell
    Ethereal passion: I know it by your laughter!
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    There’s no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them; and so I shall only just visit a person of quality or two of my particular acquaintance, and then I shall go back again to France.
    —Frances Burney (1752–1840)