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Individual Item Contents: WPRP 124

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Author

Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806).

Title

Memoirs of the life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, with a new edition of her poems, including some which have never appeared before; to which are added, some miscellaneous essays in prose, together with her notes on the Bible, and answers to objections concerning the Christian religion. By the Rev. Montagu Pennnington, M.A. 2^nd ed.

Imprint

London : F.C. and J. Rivington, 1808. 2v.

Call number

WPRP 124.

Physical description

2 v., [1] leaf of plates : ill., front. (port.) ; 22 cm

Citation

Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 52.

Epigraph

-----Quid virtus et quid sapientia possit: Utile proposuit nobis exemplar.
HOR.

Online copies

Volume I, Google Books

Volume II, Google Books

Contents

VOLUME I.

Includes Dedication and Preface.

No Contents page. Includes:

MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF MRS. ELIZABETH CARTER.

VOLUME II.

Includes Dedication and Advertisement.

No Contents page. Includes:

IN DIEM NATALEM.	8
EPITAPH ON A YOUNG LADY	14
ANACREON. ODE XXX.	14
TRANSLATED..	15
A RIDDLE..	16
IMITATED.	18
ON THE DEATH OF HER SACRED MAJESTY QUEEN CAROLINE.	22
TO MR. DUCK, OCCASIONED BY A PRESENT OF HIS POEMS	24
1738.	26
ON HEARING MISS LYNCH SING..	29
ON THE DEATH OF MRS. ROWE.	30
ODE TO MELANCHOLY	32
ODE.	35
THOUGHTS AT MIDNIGHT.	37
A DIALOGUE.	39
WRITTEN EXTEMPORE ON THE SEA-SHORE, 1741.--BY MOON LIGHT	42
TO MISS SARAH LYNCH	43
TO MISS LYNCH	44
TO THE MEMORY OF ---------------.	46
ON THE SAME	47
TO MISS LYNCH	48
TO MISS D’AETH.	51
WRITTEN AT MIDNIGHT IN A THUNDER STORM. TO MISS LYNCH	54
TO DR. WALWYN. ON HIS DESIGN OF CUTTING DOWN A SHADY WALK	56
ON THE DEATH OF MASTER QUESTED.	58
TO MISS LYNCH. APRIL 9, 1746.	59
TO MISS HALL. 1746	61
ODE TO WISDOM.	64
FROM MISS WILBRAHAM.	68
TO MISS WILBRAHAM. IN ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING.	69
TO MISS ETHELRED LYNCH. FROM HER GUARDIAN ANGLE.	71
TO ------------------	73
TO MISS HALL. WRITTEN AT AN ORATORIO	75
TO MISS HALL.	76
TO THE SAME.	78
TO MISS BURTON: ON A WATCH.	80
TO MISS UNDERDOWN. ON A WATCH	81
HORACE, B.I. ODE XV. THE PROPECY OF NEREUS. 1751	83
TO ------------------.	85
SONETTO PROEMIALE. DEL ABATE METASTASIO	88
TRANSLATED	89
CANZONE. DEL ABATE METASTASIO.	90
TRANSLATED.	91
TO MRS. HONEYWOOD. Occasioned by the sight of some verses addressed to general Honeywood her husband.	94
TO THE REV. DR. CARTER.	95
TO MISS TALBOT.	97
TO MISS MARGARET CARTER	99
TO MRS. MONTAGU	100
TO THE EARL OF BATH	101
TO MISS SUTTON.	104
ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND.	106
WRITTEN DURING THE SLEEPING OF AN AFFLICTED FRIEND.	107
TO MRS. VESEY.	108
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MISS SUTTON	111
TO THE RIGHT HON. LADY DARTHEY.	112
TO THE HON. THOMAS DAWSON.	113
TO MRS. MONTAGU	114
TO VISCOUNTESS CREMORNE.	117

MISCELLANIES IN PROSE.

LETTERS BETWEEN ARCHBISHOP SECKER AND MRS. CARTER, CONCERNING A PASSAGE IN HOMER; REFERRED TO IN THE MEMOIRS	123
FROM MRS. CARTER, JULY 1760	123
FROM THE ARCHBISHOP IN ANSWER	124
FROM MRS. CARTER TO THE ARCHBISHOP	126
WRITTEN BY MRS. CARTER UPON MAKING HER WILL; AS MENTIONED IN THE MEMOIRS	127
THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS, 1752, BY MRS. CARTER	129
THE RAMBLER. NUMBER XLIV. TO THE RAMBLER.	131
THE RAMBLER. NUMBER C. TO THE RAMBLER.	139
INSCRIPTION ON LADY ANN DAWSON’S MONUMENT, DRAWN UP BY MRS. CARTER, AND INSERTED IN THE LAST EDITION OF HER POEMS.	145
PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING BY SUBSCRIPTION	146
LETTER OF ADVICE TO WHOEVER WILL APPLY IT TO HERSELF	150
EXTRACTS FROM SOME OF MRS. CARTER’S LETTERS ON SUBJECTS OF TASTE AND LITERATURE. REFLECTIONS SUGGESTED BY THE SIGHT OF RUINS	151
ON THE SAME SUBJECT. TO ANOTHER FRIEND	154
ROUSSEAU.	156
ON THE INDULGENCE OF FANCY, &c. &c.	158
ON THE DURATION OF FRIENDSHIP	162
DAVID HUME	163
ON JOHNSON’S SHAKESPEARE	164
DR. JOHNSON’S FEAR OF DEATH	166
LORD FALKLAND	167
SIR JAMES MACDONALD.	163
JOHN WILKES	169
MR. BURKE	170
MR. HARRIS AND ARISTOTLE	171
MRS. MACAULEY, GUICCIARDINI, AND CÆSAR.	172
ON A SEXTON’S EPITAPH	173
MRS. VANSITTART’S DREAM	174

INTRODUCTION TO THE NOTES ON THE BIBLE AND THE ANSWERS TO OBJECTIONS CONCERNING THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.

INTRODUCTION TO THE NOTES ON THE BIBLE, &c. &c.	179
NOTES ON THE BIBLE, &c.	183
GENESIS	183
EXODUS	192
LEVITICUS.	194
NUMBERS.	196
DEUTERONOMY	196
JOSHUA	197
JUDGES	198
1 SAMUEL	199
2 SAMUEL	202
1 KINGS	203
2 KINGS	205
1 CHRONICLES.	210
2 CHRONICLES	211
EZRA.	216
ESTHER	216
JOB	216
PSALMS	220
PROVERBS	226
ECCLESIASTES.	227
SONG OF SOLOMON.	228
ISIAH.	229
JEREMIAH.	247
LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH.	252
EZEKIEL	253
DANIEL	256
HOSEA	260
JOEL	263
AMOS	264
OBADIAH	266
JONAH	266
MICAH	267
NAHUM	267
HABBAKKUK	269
ZEPHANIAH	269
HAGGAI	270
ZECHARIAH.	270
APOCRYPHA
1 ESDRAS	273
JUDITH	273
ECCLESIASTICUS	273
1 MACCABEES.	274
THE NEW TESTAMENT
ST. MATTHEW	277
ST. MARK	286
ST. LUKE	289
ST. JOHN	293
THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES	297
ROMANS	300
1 CORINTHIANS	302
2 CORINTHIANS	304
GALATIANS	305
EPHESIANS	306
PHILIPPIANS.	307
COLOSSIANS	308
1 THESSALONIANS.	308
1 TIMOTHY	309
2 TIMOTHY	310
TITUS	310
HEBREWS	310
JAMES	.311
2 PETER	312
REVELATION	314
OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE NEW TESTAMENT, WITH MRS. CARTER’S ANSWERS TO THEM.	319
LETTERS FROM MRS. CARTER ON THE SAME SUBJECT
LETTER I.	373
LETTER II.	376
LETTER III.	379
LETTER IV.	381
LETTER I. TO -----------	387
LETTER II. TO THE SAME	391
LETTER III. TO THE SAME	394
LETTER IV. TO THE SAME	398
LETTER V. TO THE SAME	401
ON GOOD FRIDAY. A FRAGMENT	405
THOUGHTS ON THE OLD TESTAMENT	407
A MORNING PRAYER.	413
APPENDIX
ARCHBISHOP SECKER’S NOTES	415
ANECDOTES ON MRS. CARTER	417
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MISS ANNA MARIA CLARKE TO THE EDITOR, SOON AFTER MRS. CARTER’S DEATH.	423
TO DONNA DOROTHEA RUFFO.	424
IMPROMPTU	425
LINES TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. ELIZABETH CARTER	426
ON THE DEATH OF MRS. CARTER	427

Women Poets of the Romantic Period Individual Item Contents: WPRP 124

Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 124