A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the Year 1741 to 1770: To which are Added, Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Vesey, Between the Years 1763 and 1787; Published from the Original Manuscripts in the Posession of the Rev. Montagu Pennington, Volume 3F.C. and J. Rivington, 1809 |
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Page 297 - Nor the other light of life continue long, But yield to double darkness nigh at hand : So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Page 205 - You will be so kindly solicitous about me, my dear Mrs. Vesey, when you see in the papers a confirmation of the reality of my apprehensions about my dear Miss Talbot, that I cannot forbear writing you some account of myself. I am tolerably well, and my spirits, though low, are very composed. With the deepest feeling of my own unspeakable loss of one of the dearest and most invaluable blessings of my life, I am to the highest degree thankful to the Divine goodness for removing her from the multiplied...
Page 245 - Our friend, you know, has talents which must distinguish her in the largest circles; but there it is impossible for one fully to discover either the beauties of her character, or the extent and variety of her understanding, which always improves on a more accurate examination, and on a nearer view.
Page 207 - ... politeness of manners, of a peculiar and more engaging kind than in any other character I ever knew. I am just returned from seeing all that was mortal of my angelic friend deposited in the earth. I do not mean that I went in ceremony, which 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...
Page 207 - 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 heart, may produce a happier effect. " Adieu, my dear friend, God bless you, and V conduct us. both to that happy assembly, where the spirits of the just shall dread no future separation ! And may we both remember that awful truth, that we can...
Page 346 - I would not omit writing, as you desired to hear from me. Adieu, &c. Elizabeth Carter. LETTER II. To Mrs. Vesey. Lambeth Palace, Sept 2, 1768. Your kind inquiries, my dear Mrs. Vesey, did not reach me so soon as you intended : your letter went to Deal, and I did not receive it till yesterday. I am much obliged to you for the concern which you express for my friends and me, on the late melancholy event at Lambeth*. You rightly judged how much I must be struck by the death of this great and good man,...
Page 334 - I neither have read nor probably ever shall; for indeed there is something shocking in whatever I have heard either of the author, or of his writings. It is the fashion, I find, to extol him for his benevolence, a word so wretchedly misapplied, and...
Page 146 - It is worse than dying ; for die she must to all she has ever seen or known ; but then it is only dying out of one bad world into another just like it, and where she is to have cares and fears and dangers and sorrows that will all yet be new to her.
Page 347 - ... answered every early promise both of her understanding and her character. Her behaviour under the present trial is conformable to every other part of her conduct, and worthy of the principles by which she has ever been so uniformly guided. With the weakest health and the quickest sensibility of her loss, she discovers the noblest fortitude and the most unrepining resignation, of which she gives the best, and, during the struggles of recent grief, the most difficult proof, by constantly ȣarrtly...
Page 206 - On the ninth this symptom increased, and she appeared heavy and sleepy, which was attributed to an opiate the night before. I staid with her till she went to bed, with an intention of going afterwards into her room, but was told she was asleep. I went away about nine, and in less than an hour...