In John Milton, whose first wife Mary Powell was, Miss Manning has a hero who, though a supreme poet, was "gey ill to live with," and it is a triumph of her art that she makes us Compunctious for the great poet even while we appreciate the difficulties that fell to the lot of his women-kind.
"Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary"
Anne Manning
What Shakspeare calls the "Compunctious visitings of Nature" will sometimes knock at their hearts, and protest against their murderous speculations.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
Milly broke out with characteristic freedom of praise, though pulling herself up also with a Compunctious "Oh!"
"The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2"
Henry James
