Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.
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Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.
English poetry; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Poetry; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820
Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Mary, Memoirs of, 94;
keeps her father in awe, _ib._;
lively fancy without knowledge and habits of reasoning, _ib._;
_so qualified_ becomes one of the _Analytical_ Reviewers, _ib._;
_undertakes_ to answer Burke, 95;
answer such as might have been expected, _ib._;
her constitution testified by her husband to have been _amorous_,
_ib._;
Rights of Woman characterised, _ib._;
her passions inflamed by celibacy, 96;
falls in love with a married man, _ib._;
at the breaking out of the war betakes herself to our enemies, _ib._;
intimate with the French leaders under Robespierre, 97;
with Thomas Paine, _ib._;
taken by Imlay into keeping, _ib._;
her husband declares that her soul had panted for that connection,
_ib._;
her doctrines, illustrated by her example, _not new_, _ib._;
_as old as prostitution_, _ib._;
proposes to elude her creditors, _ib._;
deserted by her keeper, _ib._;
derives particular gratification from Hamilton Rowan, _ib._;
pursues her keeper to England, _ib._;
her great aversion to this country, _ib._;
being without a lover attempts to drown herself, 98;
appointed kept mistress to the philosopher Godwin, _ib._;
married to the philosopher, _ib._;
does not believe in future punishments, 99;
from the time she became enlightened discontinued public worship,
_ib._;
her life illustrates Jacobin morality and religion, _ib._;
high praises of her life, doctrines, and conduct by the _Analytical_
Reviewers, 101;
prophetic apostrophe to her by them, 402.
_See_ Maria, Godwin, Prostitution, and _Analytical Review_.
THE END.
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Footnote 1:
On the subject of the respective authorship of the contributions to
_The Anti-Jacobin_, see _The Works of John Hookham Frere, in verse and
prose, with Prefatory Memoir. Edited by his Nephews, H. and Sir Bartle
Frere_, and _The Edinburgh Review_ for April, 1872, p. 476.
Footnote 2:
It will be remembered that these eminent persons were chosen by Lord
Malmesbury to accompany him on his mission to Lille and were
associated with him in the abortive negotiations for peace.
Footnote 3:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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