...almost insulting letter, on receiving the first formal intimation of the step she was about to take. "If you have abandoned your children and your religion,...your country, may your folly do no further mischief ! " he exclaims hotly, and begs to be permitted an interview before her fate is irrevocable. But this...

..." Bath, Jane 80, 1784." No. 3. " MADAM, — If I interpret your letter right, you are ignominiously married : if it is yet undone, let us once more talk...have loved you, esteemed you, reverenced you, and terved you,* I who long thought you the first of womankind, entreat that, before your fate is irrevocable,...

...servant. Bath, June 30, 1784. No. 3. MADAM,—If I interpret your letter right, you are ignominiously married : if it is yet undone, let us once more talk'...mischief. If the last act is yet to do, I who have loved yon, esteemed you, reverenced you, and teretd you,,'" I who long thought you the first of womankind,...

...servant. "Bath, June 30, 1781" No. 3.* "MADAM, — If I interpret your letter right, you are ignominiously married : if it is yet undone, let us once more talk...you have forfeited your fame and your country, may * What Johnson termed an " adumbration " of this letter appeared in the " Gentleman's Magazine " for...

..."Bath, June 30, 1784." No. 3.« "MADAM, — If I interpret your letter right, you are ignominiously married : if it is yet undone, let us once more talk...you have forfeited your fame and your country, may * What Johnson termed an " adumbration " of this letter appeared in the " Gentleman's Magazine " for...

...letter right, you are ignominiously married: if it is yet undone, let us o»cf more talk together. li' you have abandoned your children, and your religion,...forfeited your fame and your country, may your folly do no urther mischief. If the last act is yet to do, I who have loved you, esteemed you, reverenced you,...

...spirited woman to take quietly, even from a friend so honored. "If you have abandoned," he wrote, " your children and your religion, God forgive your...your country, may your folly do no further mischief." Because she was going to marry a Lombard gentleman, whom fate had driven to teach music in a foreign...

...spirited woman to take quietly, even from a friend so honoured. "If you have abandoned," he wrote, "your children and your religion, God forgive your...your country, may your folly do no further mischief. Because she was going to marry a Lombard gentleman, whom fate had driven to teach music in a foreign...

...servant. Bath, June 30, 1784. No. 3. MADAM, — If I interpret your letter right, you are ignominiously married : if it is yet undone, let us once more talk*...you have abandoned your children and your religion, liod forgive your wickedness^ if you have forfeited your fame and your country, may your folly do no...

...sapphics addressed to her from Skye, — the passionate words of his last recorded letter to her : ' I who have * loved you, esteemed you, reverenced you,...I ' who long thought you the first of womankind,' — these breathe the language of a very different feeling from an ordinary old gentleman's penchant...