Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter: With a New Edition of Her Poems; to which are Added, Some Miscellaneous Essays in Prose, Together with Her Notes on the Bible, and Answers to Objections Concerning the Christian Religion, Volume 1F.C. & J. Rivington, 1816 - 501 pages |
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Page 124 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Page 195 - CHRIST ; showing, of a truth, that " the sufferings of this present time are not to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us.
Page 186 - Whoever that somebody or other is, who is to write the life of Epictetus, seeing I have a dozen shirts to make, I do opine, dear Miss Talbot, that it cannot be I...
Page 40 - I did not till this day remember that you might help us, and recollect how widely and how rapidly light is diffused. " To every joy is appended a sorrow. The name of Miss Carter introduces the memory of Cave. Poor dear Cave! I owed him much; for to him I owe that I have known you. He died, I am afraid, unexpectedly to himself, yet surely unburthened with any great crime; and for the VOL. V. G positive duties of religion, I have yet no right to condemn him for neglect. " I am, with respect, which...
Page 465 - ... that a foreign gentleman, who was to go there with an acquaintance, was told in jest, that it was so little necessary, that he might appear there, if he pleased, in blue stockings. This he understood in the literal sense; and when he spoke of it in French called it the Bos Bleu Meeting. And this was the origin of the ludicrous appellation of the Blue Stocking Club, since given to these meetings, and so much talked of.
Page 467 - ... in general to some circumstance of news, politics, or literature of peculiar importance; or perhaps to an anecdote, or interesting account of some person known to the company in general. Of this last kind a laughable circumstance occurred about the year 1778, when Mrs. Carter was confined to her bed with a fever, which was thought to be dangerous. She was attended by her brother-in-law, Dr. Douglas, then a physician in town, and he was in the habit of sending bulletins of the state of her health...
Page 410 - I went in ceremony, which, had it been proper, would have been too strong a trial for my spirits, but privately with two other of her intimate friends. I felt it would be a comfort to me, on that most solemn occasion, ,to thank Almighty God for delivering her from -her sufferings, and to implore his assistance to prepare me to follow her. Little, alas! infinitely ' too little, have I yet profited by the blessing of such an example. God grant that her memory, . which I hope will ever survive in my...
Page 135 - Lave a priviledge for talking a vast deal over the tea-table, as I am tolerably silent the rest of the day. After breakfast every one follows their several employments. My first care is to water the pinks and roses, which are stuck in about twenty different parts of my room...
Page 22 - Besides taking snuff, she owned that she used to bind a wet towel round her head, put a wet cloth to the pit of her stomach, and chew green tea and coffee. To oblige her father, she endeavoured to conquer the habit of taking snuff, and would not resume it without his consent. This he at length reluctantly gave, finding how much she suffered from the want of it.
Page 423 - It gives me great pleasure that it was at first a secret, as it helped you to that unprejudiced applause of the work which it might have been difficult to separate from a regard to the author. ... I had a letter from Mrs. Howe, who mentions the general admiration bestowed on the work by all she has heard name it, and adds' that no one she has met with has discovered the author. How can people be so dull !