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With tuneful force defcribe the realms above, 
The blifsful feats of harmony and loye. 
Thefe are the lofty fubje&ts I would chufe : 
But thefe tranfcend my inexperienced Mufe. 
E.C zp.” 
Daring the fucceeding year, Mifs C. 
appears to have written fome birth-day 
verfes, in{cribed ‘In Diem Natalem,”” 
with the fellowing motto from Horace: 
‘¢ Vivendi re&té qui prorogat horam, 
Rufticus expeétat dum defluat amnis, a tille 
Labitur ec labetur in omne volubilis evum.” 
From this, which muft be allowed to 
be a very pious effulion on the part of a 
poetefs of eighteen, a few lines are here 
felected : 
“* Thou Pow’r fupreme! by whofe com- 
, mand I] live, 
The grateful tribute of my praife receive. 
To thy indulgence I my being owe, 
And all the joys which from that being 
flow. 
*¢ Scarce eighteen funs have form’d the 
rolling year, 
And run their deftin’d courfes round the 
fphere, : 
Since thou my undiftinguifh’d form furvey’d 
Among the lifelefs heaps of matter laid. 
Thy fkill my elemental clay refin’d, 
The vagrant particles in order joined : 
With verfe& fymmetry compoted the whole, 
And amp'd thy facred image on my foul.” 
The generality of readers will however 
be inclined perhaps, notwithftanding a 
faulty rhyme in line 10, to give the pre- 
ference to fome charming veries, that firft 
appeared under the fignature of ‘ Eliza,” 
in a periodical publication of that day, 
to which fhe feems to have been a fre- 
quent contributor. Thefe, with a quota- 
tion from Ovid before it, form the {-coad 
in order of her poems, ‘fince publifhed in 
a little thin ducdecimo volume : 
«s While clear the night, 
thought ferene, 
Let Fancy wander o’er the folemn fcene: 
And, wing’d by a€tive contemplation, rife 
Amidft the radiant wonders of the fkics. 
Here Cafficpeia fills a lucid throne, 
There blaze the fplendors of the Northern 
Crown : 
While the flow car the cold Triones roll 
O’er the pale countries of the frozen pole, 
With faithful beams conduct the wand’ring 
thi 
O’er the wie defart of the pathlefs deep ; 
Throughout the Galaxy's extended line, 
Unnumber’d orbs in gay confufion thine : 
Where ev’ry ftar that gi'ds the gloom of 
night, / 
‘With the faint tremblings of a diftant light, 
Perhaps illumes fome fyftem of its own 
With the ftrong influence of a radiant fun. 
and every 
Account of Mrs, Elizabeth Carter. 
‘ 
[July 1; 
6¢ Plac’d on the verge, which Titan’s 
realm confines, 
The flow revolving orb of Saturn thines 3 
Where the bright Pow’r, whofe near ape 
proaching ray 
Gilds our gay climates with the blaze of 
day 5 , 
On thofe dark regions glimmers from afar, 
With the pale luftre of a twinkling ftar. 
While, glowing with unmitigated day, 
The neareft planets roll their rapid way.” 
She appears fome time after to have ex- 
cited the attention of the literary and 
fafhicnable world, as appears by a paf- 
fage in the elegant Correfpondenee lately 
publithed of the Countets of Hartiord and 
Pomfret. Lady Hartford, in writing to 
Lady Pomfret trom London in June 7739, 
obferves “IT have been agreeably amufed 
by reading Signor Algarotti’s New- 
toniant{mo per le Dame; tranflated into 
Englifh from the Italian, in a very goad 
‘ftyle, by a young woman not more than 
twenty years old. Iam well informed 
that fhe is an admirable Greek and Latin 
{cholar ; and writes both thefe languages, 
as well as French and Italian, with great 
elegance. But, what adds to the wonder 
fhe excites, is, that all this learning bas 
not made her the Jefs reafonable woman, 
the leis dutiful daughter, or the lefs 
agreeable and faithful friend. 
While a cotrefpondent of the induf- 
trious Cave, and a céntributor to his 
Mifcellany, Mifs Carter formed an ac- 
quaintance with Johnfon, then an ebfcure 
author ftruggling into celebrity, as yet 
unadorned even wiih a degree, and unno- 
ticed by the royal favour which gilded 
the latter portion of his life by means of 
a well-merited penfion. From this learned 
man, who thought ‘fhe ought to be ce~ 
lebrated in as many languages as Lewis 
le Grand,” fhe received the tribute of an 
epigram ina language with the beauties 
of which fhe was well acquainted. * 
* Eo vo tng Edirong weps Tov Overeny 
AWlYIAGe 
Tou Kadrcug Suvapgees Te TsA0¢ 3 ZLeug mavra 
dedwxev 
Kurds, mud” avuTou SKnwrred eueNAE O2u* 
Ex Atos grt ovag, Sess mor” eyeartey “Oungor, 
Adda Tod” erg Synroug Kumpig exeueley Ovag® - 
ZEUS (AOVV0S PAOYVOEYTL WOAELS EXTELTE KEPAUYWs 
Oupacs rAapmres Miog Kumets olga pees. 
In Eliza Enigma. 
Quis forme modus imperio? Venus arrogat 
audax : ¥ 
Omnia, nec cure funt fua fceptra Jovi. | 
Ab Jove Maonides defcendere.Somnia nerrat, 
Hec veniunt Cypriz Somnia mffa Dex. _ 
vpiter unus erat, qui ftravit fulmine gentes; 
Nunc armant Veneris lumina tela Jovis. 
An 
