The Ruminator; Containing a Series of Moral, Critical, and Sentimental Essays Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 edition. Excerpt: ...her eloquence and beauty of language, as by her strength of mind and fervour of piety;-while those who admire a more playful manner, joined to an equal warmth of religion and purity of conduct, will perhaps be still more pleased with those of her correspondent, Mrs. Katherine Talbot, which will appear with them. In the latter years of Mrs. Carter's life, the colour of her pen became still more uniformly serious, as is proved by her letters to Mrs. Vesey. I could not refrain from soliciting the permission, which a spare hour would allow me to embrace, of making the following extracts from the MSS. in the hands of my dear friend the They have since been published; and I will maintain that they fully justify this character. Editor: conceiving I should gratify the public by this slight anticipation. Extracts from Mrs. Carter's Litters to Mrs. Fesey. Aug. 21,1776. " We were both exceedingly disappointed at your rejection of our darling scheme of Walmer Castle. But I suspect it is Mrs. H--'s fault: she probably represented it to you merely as a pleasant dwelling; where you might eat your dinner, and drink your tea and coffee, like the fashion of any modern house. If she had told you that some discontented spectre walked its melancholy round every night along the grass-grown platform., the attraction would have been irresistible to your curiosity. I think she might possibly have succeeded even if she had been contented to describe ihe operations of elementary beings upon the ancient structure. She might have told you how the spirits of the air talk in whistling winds through its battlements, and how the angel of the waters dashes the roaring billows at its foot. Instead of alluring you by these sublime ideas, I suspect she dwelt chiefly en the pleasure...