| Evidence: | [Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?["]The Lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today
Had he thy ['thy' is underlined] reason would he skip & play
Pleas?d to the last he cropp?s the flowery food
And licks the hand upraised to shed his blood["]
What you always repeated!
1812?
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Aug 1812 and 31 Dec 1812 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England or possibly Ireland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Lady Caroline Lamb |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1785 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | socialite, novelist, influential member of the Whig political elite |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England or possibly Ireland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | (n?e Ponsonby) |
| Author: | Alexander Pope |
| Title: | An Essay on Man, Epistle I |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 10069 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | |
| Author: | Lady Caroline Lamb (n?e Ponsonby) | |
| Title: | [commonplace book 1] | |
| Location: | John Murray Archive | |
| Call no: | Acc. 12604/4107 | |
| Page/folio: | 15r |
| Citation: | Lady Caroline Lamb (n?e Ponsonby), [commonplace book 1] John Murray Archive, p. Acc. 12604/4107, p. 15r, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10069, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| She quotes lines 77-80 of Pope's poem. In the commonplace book, these lines are written under a watercolor of two children playing with a lamb. Transcribed by Lindsey Eckert. |
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