The novelist could emulate Burke with his right barrel and Lydia Languish with his left.

He certainly did not always endeavour to profit as well as to delight: but the double power was, from this time forward, shared by him with his brother in the higher and older _Dichtung_.
[15] Godwin had written novel-_juvenilia_ of which few say anything.
Next to Godwin may be placed a lady who was much adored by that curious professor of philandering, political _in_justice, psychology, and the use of the spunge, but who wisely put him off.

Mrs.Inchbald's (1753-1821) command of a certain kind of dramatic or at least theatrical situation, and her propensity to Richardsonian "human-heart"-mongering, have from time to time secured a certain number of admirers for _A Simple Story_ (1791) and _Nature and Art_ (1796).

Some, availing themselves of the confusion between "style" and "handling" which has recently become fashionable, have even credited her with style itself.
Of this she has nothing--unless the most conventional of eighteenth-century phraseology, dashed with a kind of _marivaudage_ which may perhaps seem original to those who do not know Marivaux's French followers, shall deserve the name.

She is indeed very much of an English Madame Riccoboni.