Remembering Caroline Norton by Various

Author:Various [Various]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781528717991
Amazon: B08H5JP94L
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Goodreads: 55461278
Publisher: Brilliant Women - Read & Co.
Published: 2020-07-31T00:00:00+00:00

"Oh! carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow,

Nor write rude lines there with thine antique pen."

Some such adjuration, one would think, had reached the ear of the unstaying one, since, despite the fifty years that had slipped away, O Posthumus, since Maclise traced in Fraser her lovely face and graceful form, the lineaments of our Corinna are still beautiful as seen in her later portraits. Those of T. Carrick and J. Hayter, in earlier life, are before me; and there is a marble bust, executed in London so far back as 1832, by an admirable sculptor, my friend, Peter Hollins, still happily alive among us in his native Birmingham, of which the best praise would be that it was worthy of the original.

The following exquisitely polished lines, with which I cannot resist the temptation to round off this notice, were written by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton:—

"THE HON. MRS. NORTON

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