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    Blue-Stocking Revels

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    Cantoiii.—The Supper

    I declare I beheld them so plainly , it took | All the self-command in me ( so sweet was her look ) > Not to jump from the gallery , and kiss Mrs Brooke /* J Lady Winchelsea cost me still more to go through it ; But at Lady Ann Barnard , I said " I must do it . " I cannot name all who thus issued from air , As the master described them ;—but Sappho was there , As brown as a berry , and little of size ;

    But lord ! Aspasia ' s Heart sat We saw ( And both ( with such midnight and love in her eyes ! however we thought still more loving : in their pupils , and gentlest approving _, only fancy it !) Pericles hand her ; 1 can testify ) looked up at Landor .

    Of Romans ( whose women more startle than lull us ) Came none but the dame that ' s bound up with Tibullus ; But France furnished many , and Italy fair ; The laurel look'd sweet in their wild flowing hair . Colonna came noble , in widow ' s black gown ; And Stampa , who _worshipp'd a living renown _j 32

    ( 27 ) Frances Brooke , authoress of ' Rosina / * Emily Montague , ' & c . & c , " remarkable , " says Gorton , "for the suavity and gentleness of her manners , as for her literary talents . " She had the candour , in a dispute with Gariick , to confess publicly that she was in the wrong . ( 23 ) Anne , Countess of Winchelsea , in the time of Pope , whom she knew . Gay ntr oduces her among Pope ' s _welcomers home from Greece ( his finish of the Iliad ) as " Winchelsea , still meditating song . "

    Her poems , amidst a good deal of inferior matter , contain evidences of a true feeling for nature , which has obtained the praise of Wordsworth . " It is remarkable , " says he , in the Essay in his Miscellaneous Poems " that excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest' of Pope , and some delightful pictures in the Poems of Lady Wincheisea , the poetry of the period intervening between the publication of the " Paradise Lost , ' and the ' Seasons / does not contain a _single new image of external nature . ' In Mr best specimens , hearted effusion Petition for au Absolute Retreat , a charming aspiration after one of those sequestered states of felicity which poets love to paint . It is equally beautiful for its thoughts , its pictures , and the music of the burthen which it repeats at the close of and the ' Seasons , does not contain a single new image of external Dyce ' s ' Specimens of British Poetesses * are to be found two of her the Nocturnal Reverie / and the truly philosophical and lineentitled the * Spleen _j' but I am surprised that he has omitted her i Absolute Retreat , ' a charming aspiration after one of those

    seteach paragraph . ( 29 ) Lady Ann ( Gray/—the most ( 30 ) Sulpicia ; Barnard , of the house of Balcarres , authoress of ( Auld Robin beautiful ballad that ever was written . respecting whom , after all , there is much dispute .

    ( 31 ) Vittona Coionna , the chief Italian poetess , famous for her adoring constancy tto the memory of her husband , the Marquis of Pescara , a distinguished soldier . ( 32 ) Gaspara Stumpn , another celebrated Italian poetess , whose writings are full _tof the passion she entertained , not with a like return , for Collaltino di _Collalto , _( Conte di Trev _»«»» who was also a soldier of eminence .

    Blue-Stocking Revels

    Blue-Stocking Revels

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/48/