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)

    “We came home from the ridotto so late, or rather so early, that it was not possible for me to write. Indeed we did not go ... till past eleven o’clock: but nobody does. A terrible reverse of the order of nature! We sleep with the sun, and wake with the moon.”
    —Frances Burney (1752–1840)