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SERIES OF ANECDOTES INTENDED TO ILLUSTRATE THE INFLUENCE WHICH FEMALEBEAUTY AND VIRTUE HAVE EXERCISED OVER THE CHARACTERS AND WRITINGS OF MENOF GENIUS.
Authoress of the Diary of an Ennuyée; Lives of Celebrated
Female Sovereigns; Female Characters of Shakespeare's Plays; Beauties of the
Court of Charles the Second.
THIRD EDITION,
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
SAUNDERS AND OTLEY.
MDCCCXXXVII.
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CHAPTER I.
Carew's Celia.—Lucy Sacheverel 1
CHAPTER II.
Waller's Sacharissa 15
CHAPTER III.
[Pg vi]Beauties and Poets in the Reign of Charles I. 33
CHAPTER IV.
Conjugal Poetry.
Ovid and Perilla—Seneca's Paulina—Sulpicia—Clotilde de Surville 43
CHAPTER V.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Vittoria Colonna 60
CHAPTER VI.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Veronica Gambara—Camilla Valentini—Portia Rota—Castiglione 81
CHAPTER VII.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Doctor Donne and his Wife—Habington's Castara 94
CHAPTER VIII.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
The Two Zappi 131
CHAPTER IX.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
[Pg vii]Lord Lyttelton—Prince Frederick—Doctor Parnell 139
CHAPTER X.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Klopstock and Meta 154
CHAPTER XI.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Bonnie Jean—Highland Mary—Loves of Burns 182
CHAPTER XII.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Monti and his Wife 209
CHAPTER XIII.
Poets and Beauties from Charles II. to Queen Anne.
Cowley's Eleonora—Maria d'Este—AnneKillegrew—Lady Hyde—Granville's Mira—Prior'sChloe—Duchess of Queensbury ...