‘Greece shall no more
Of Lesbian Sappho boast.... For the sacred head
Of Britain’s poetess the Virtues twine
A nobler wreath.’
—On reading Miss Carter’s Poems in Manuscript. Mr. Smelt told Fanny Burney that he considered Mrs. Carter’s Ode the best in the language. Diary 4. 222.
[331] Poems on Several Subjects, 3d edition, 1776, p. 94, ‘To Mrs. Vesey.’
[332] Letters to Mrs. Montagu 3. 224.
[333] Ib. 3. 180.
[334] Ib. 2. 292.
[335] Series of Letters 3. 288.