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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 |