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Title: Damon and Delia
A Tale

Author: William Godwin

Release Date: November 27, 2003 [EBook #10318]
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Language: English

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DAMON

AND

DELIA:

A TALE.

--NEQUE SEMPER ARCUM
TENDIT APOLLO. HOR.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR T. HOOKHAM, AT HIS CIRCULATING
LIBRARY, NEW BOND-STEET, CORNER
OF BRUTON-STREET.
M,DCC,LXXXIV.

CONTENTS

PART the FIRST.

CHAPTER I.

_Containing introductory Matter._

CHAPTER II.

_A Ball_

CHAPTER III.

_A Ghost._

CHAPTER IV.

_A love Scene._

CHAPTER V.

_A Man of Humour._

CHAPTER VI.

_Containing some Specimens of Heroism._

CHAPTER VII.

_Containing that with which the Reader will be acquainted when he has
read it._

CHAPTER VIII.

_Two Persons of Fashion._

CHAPTER IX.

_A tragical Resolution._

CONTENTS.

PART the SECOND.

CHAPTER I.

_In which the Story begins over again_.

CHAPTER II.

_The History of Mr. Godfrey_.

CHAPTER III.

_A Misanthrope_.

CHAPTER IV.

_Much ado about nothing_.

CHAPTER V.

_A Woman of learning_.

CHAPTER VI.

_A Catastrophe_.

CHAPTER VII.

_Containing what will terrify the Reader_.

CHAPTER VIII.

_A Denouement_.

CHAPTER IX.

_Which dismisses the Reader_.

DAMON

AND

DELIA.

PART the FIRST.

CHAPTER I.

_Containing introductory matter_.

The races at Southampton have, for time immemorial, constituted a scene of
rivalship, war, and envy. All the passions incident to the human frame
have here assumed as true a scope, as in the more noisy and more tragical
contentions of statesmen and warriors. Here nature has displayed her most
hidden attractions, and art has furnished out the artillery of beauty.
Here the coquet has surprised, and the love-sick nymph has sapped the
heart of the unwary swain. The scene has been equally sought by the bolder
and more haughty, as by the