Evidence: | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] 'it appears to me, that even in your slighter pieces, this illusion [hiding judgment under imagination] is kept up; while, in your more finished producions, it is preserved in an uncommon degree. This, my feelings tell me; and to them, in this instance, judgment delegates her authority. Had I, previously to publication, known of your intention of paying a compliment to Lord N., I should certainly have remonstrated. I confess I was revolted by the idea of your virtuous muse binding her laurels round the brow of one of the most profligate and worthless of the human race; but that single passage excepted, I found so much pleasure in the perusal of the whole, that I would not have taken a thousand pounds to have gone critically over every if and and, purposely to pick out some faults'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | From: 1 Jan 1795 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Elizabeth Hamilton |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 25 Jul 1758 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | Episcopalian |
Country of origin: | Ireland |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Hector Macneil |
Title: | [poems] |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned given by Macneil |
Record ID: | 22360 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Elizabeth Hamilton | |
Editor: | Elizabeth Benger | |
Title: | Memoirs of the Late Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1818 | |
Vol: | II | |
Page: | 27-8 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Hamilton, Elizabeth Benger (ed.), Memoirs of the Late Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton (London, 1818), II, p. 27-8, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22360, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
Macneil published 'The Harp' in 1789 and his poetic tales, 'Scotland’s Scaith or the History of Will and Jean' (1795), and the sequel, 'The Waes of War or the Upshot of the History of Will and Jean (1796) but this may have been a later 'collected works'? |
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