The Power of Sympathy. _VOL. I._ [Illustration] _The impression of this Edition consists of 550 Copies, of which this is No. 313._ [Illustration: Walt Littlefield.] [Illustration: The STORY of _OPHELIA_. _Saml Hill. Tat._ “_O Fatal! Fatal ‘Poison’!_”] Edited by Walter Littlefield. THE POWER OF SYMPATHY: or, the Triumph of Nature. Founded in Truth. BY MRS. PEREZ MORTON (SARAH WENTWORTH APTHORP). _With Frontispiece._ [Illustration] BOSTON: PRINTED·BY·CUPPLES & PATTERSON·AND·PUBLISHED BY·THEM·AT·THE·BACK BAY·BOOKSTORE·250·BOYLSTON·STREET Copyright, 1894, By WALTER LITTLEFIELD. _All Rights Reserved._ THE POWER OF SYMPATHY: OR, THE TRIUMPH OF NATURE. FOUNDED IN _TRUTH_. IN _TWO_ VOLUMES. VOL. I. Fain would he strew Life’s thorny Way with Flowers, And open to your View Elysian Bowers; Catch the warm Passions of the tender Youth, And win the Mind to Sentiment and Truth. [Illustration] PRINTED at _BOSTON_ BY ISAIAH THOMAS AND COMPANY. Sold at their Bookstore, No. 45, NEWBURY STREET, And at said THOMAS’S Bookstore in WORCESTER. MDCCLXXXIX. TO THE YOUNG LADIES, OF United Columbia, _These VOLUMES_, Intended to represent the specious CAUSES, AND TO Expose the fatal CONSEQUENCES OF SEDUCTION; To inspire the FEMALE MIND With a principle of SELF COMPLACENCY AND TO Promote the ECONOMY of HUMAN LIFE, =Are Inscribed,= With Esteem and Sincerity, By their Friend and Humble Servant, _The Author_. BOSTON, _Jan. 1789_. Editor’s Introduction.