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42 LIFE AND REMAINS OF
all, the spot looks much as the garden of Eden did
after the expulsion of A d a m and Eve. W e had
just done tea when M . came in and sat an hour or
two. What in the name of wonder could he have
found to talk about all that time ? Something,
dear sister, you would not have thought of; something
of so little consequence, that the time he
spent glided swiftly, almost unnoticed. I had him
all to myself, tete-a-tete. I had almost forgotten
to tell you I had yesterday a present of a most
beautiful bouquet: I wore it to church in the afternoon
; but it has withered and faded—
Withered like the world's treasures,
Faded like the world's pleasures.
From the sort of mystical girl-like allusions in
the above extracts, to persons whose initials only
are given, to bouquets and tete-a-tetes, we infer
that she thus early had declared lovers, even at this
age, for she was not yet sixteen : her mother says
she had resolved never to m a n y . " H e r reasons,"
continues her mother, " for this decision were, that
her peculiar habits, her entire devotion to books,
and scribbling (as she called it), unfitted her for
the care of a family; she could not do justice to
husband or children while her whole soul was ab-
Object Description
| Title | Poetical Remains of Lucretia Davidson, Collected and Arranged by Her Mother; With a Biography by Miss Sedgwick |
| Creator | Davidson, Lucretia Maria |
| Date | 1843 |
| Subject - Library of Congress | Lucretia Maria Davidson, 1808-1825 |
| Physical Description | xvi, [9]-310 p. ; 18 cm. |
| Publisher | London: Tilt and Bogue, 1843 |
| Resource Type | Text |
| Call Number | PS1513.D8 1843b |
| Identifier | ps1513_d8_1843b |
| Language | English |
| Custodian | Baylor University - Armstrong Browning Library |
| Rights | http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights |
| Digital Collection | 19th Century Women Poets Collection |
| Note | "First English edition. First published in America in 1841. A collection of poems and prose pieces by a young poet who died at the age of sixteen. Her work was praised by Robert Southey. Frontispiece. 2 pp. undated advertisements followed by a further 16 pp. undated advertisements." -- Bookseller. |
| Format | Books |
Description
| Title | Page 56 |
| Resource Type | Text |
| Rights | http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights |
| Digital Collection | 19th Century Women Poets Collection |
| Full Text | 42 LIFE AND REMAINS OF all, the spot looks much as the garden of Eden did after the expulsion of A d a m and Eve. W e had just done tea when M . came in and sat an hour or two. What in the name of wonder could he have found to talk about all that time ? Something, dear sister, you would not have thought of; something of so little consequence, that the time he spent glided swiftly, almost unnoticed. I had him all to myself, tete-a-tete. I had almost forgotten to tell you I had yesterday a present of a most beautiful bouquet: I wore it to church in the afternoon ; but it has withered and faded— Withered like the world's treasures, Faded like the world's pleasures. From the sort of mystical girl-like allusions in the above extracts, to persons whose initials only are given, to bouquets and tete-a-tetes, we infer that she thus early had declared lovers, even at this age, for she was not yet sixteen : her mother says she had resolved never to m a n y . " H e r reasons," continues her mother, " for this decision were, that her peculiar habits, her entire devotion to books, and scribbling (as she called it), unfitted her for the care of a family; she could not do justice to husband or children while her whole soul was ab- |
| Format | Books |
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