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TACTS AND SCRAPS. 401\
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Mks. Cojststantia Grierson.* In Essex St...
kept b and y her some mother of the . ' most She deli wrote htful elegantl hours y I ever Tooth p in assed verse were and in
-Mrs prose the . conversation , Pilkington , of " readil this female y consented philosop g to her acc . ept My her father as she a , " and pup continues il , and
gave her a general invitation to his table , so that I were seldom asunder . My parents were well pleased with Whether our intimacy it ,
owing as her to piety her own was desire not inferior , or the to envy her of learning those who . survived _3 her t was , I :
know notbut of her various and beautiful writings , _excejone , published poem divine of subjects . hers 'Ti , s in they true Mrs , mi as . g Barber ht her not turn ' s be works was agreeable , from chiefl I have y its to to the sublim never philosop present seen hical hei taste any hts or ; .
to yet the could easy her ep heavenl istolary y muse style , descend and suit itself to my e then g gay disposition Constantia . " Grierson was a member of the circle of Dean Swift ,
Dr . Thomas Sheridanand Dr . Patrick Delany . George Grierson obtained , , through the reversion influence of of the the accom patent
lished Lord Carteretwhile "Viceroy , a p office he of King published ' s Printer in , in the and Elzevir through st all le Ireland editions in 1727 of Justin : in which and :
year , y , Terence . ; Mrs . Grierson ' s Latin style is exhibited in the _Tbeautiul
dedication to Terence . . In lish 1728 version Grierson and commentaries published an by edition Dr . Thomas of Persius Sheridan , with ; and an
in Eng 1729 issued an accurate and handsome quarto edition of Ovid . Grierson issued editions of various other Latin classics , and in . Tacituedited
by 1730 Mrs published . Grierson , in , from three the vols t . ext , octavo of , H the yckins works . " of This , " says s , Dr ., Harwoodthe erudite English classical bibliographer and writer ,
" is the celebrated , edition of Tacitus which Mrs . Grierson published . books I have read delivered it twice to throug the h world , and " it Mrs is one . Grierson of the was best a edited lady- _,
ever . solidit possesse y d of of jud singular gment which erudition justl , and y rendered had an Prefixed her elegance one to of of this taste the editioa most and wonderful as well as amiable of her sex .
is a dedication to Lord Carteret , by Mrs . Grierson , in most elegant Latinity . " This edition , " adds Dr . Dibdin , "is now become rare ,
wrote and Mrs soug . we Grierson ht are after told . " died " several in 1733 fine , at the s age in of twenty lishon -seven which . She she , poemEng ,
set so , little value , that she neglected to leave copies behind her of but that very Mrs few Grierson . " Her , " was Eng not lish onl contemporary happy in , a Mrs fine . Barber imagination , observes , a ,
great but had memory . all these , an excellent crowned understanding bvirtue y and , and iet an y . exact She jud was gment too _,, ,
Learned to be vaintoo wise to y be conceited p too knowing and too , , ,
Tacts And Scraps. 401\
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 401, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/41/
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