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Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 131

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Author

Bowdler, Jane (1743-1784).

Title

Poems and essays, by the late Miss Bowdler

Imprint

[London] : Printed for William Baynes & Son, 1824.

Physical description

12mo. Contemporary green binder's cloth.

Call number

WPRP 131.

Notes

none

Epigraph

Illustration with source not listed and epigraph:
Celestial Hope! thou gift divine!
Sweet balm of grief. Oh! still be mine.: Vattene in pace alma beata e bella!
Vattene in pace a la superna sede,: E lascia al mondo esempio di tua fede!
ARIOSTO

Contents

Memoir of the Author	v
Preface	ix

POEMS.

Ode to Hope	1
Elegy on the Death of Mr. Garrick	5
A Ballad	7
Love, for the Vase of Batheaston Villa	11
To Miss------, then two Years old	13
Louisa; a Tale	15
Envy: a Fragment	23
On the New Year	28

ESSAYS.

On Sensibility	37
On the Character of LÊtitia	53
On Politeness	64
On the Character of Curio	79
On Fortitude	82
On Candour	91
On the Advantages of Affliction	106
On the Pleasures of Religion	111
On Gratitude	121
On Happiness	132
On Christian Perfection	142
On Resignation	154
On the Duties and Advantages of Sickness	166



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