[321] Essay, p. 161.
[322] Ib. p. 153.
[323] Ib. p. 156.
[324] Letters to Mrs. Montagu 3. 251 and 224.
[325] Higginson.
[326] ‘The Temple Classics’ and ‘Everyman’s Library.’
[327] Life 1. 123.
[328] Johnsonian Miscellanies 2. 11.
[329] Numbers 44 and 100. They were reprinted in the editions of her collected poems.
[330] Young praised her in his poem Resignation (Part 2). Like Eve, Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Montagu have ‘caused a fall—A fall of fame in man.’ He institutes a comparison with Addison. But Lord Lyttelton is even bolder: Carter’s singing reminds him at times of the angels singing over Bethlehem and at times of Sappho,