HANNAH MORE, a great truth ; Happiness being represented as sought in numerousways, but found only in religion. This play she dedicated, as a tribute of gratitude, to Mrs. Gwatkin, a lady of large fortune and extensive connexions, and who had two daughters at the school. In consequence of this, the establishment rose to a high point of fashion, and pupils came from even the most remote parts of the kingdom. A larger house was found necessary, and the sisters removed, in 1766, to Park Street, Bristol, the first house erected in that street being occupied by them. At the age of twenty, fortunately for the youthful poetess, she had access to the best libraries in the neighbourhood, and was thus enabled to cultivate her fondness for the Latin, Italian, and Spanish languages, from which she made many translations and imitations. The " Odes " of Horace, and some of thework of Metastasio, were among her numerous translations ; but, having shown them to some of her more intimate literary friends, she destroyed them, with the single exception of Metastasio's Opera of " Regulus, "-which, in after years, she worked up into a drama, under the title of " The Inflexible Captive." Her fluency was such that, on one occasion, being present with some friends at an Italian concert, she took out her pencil, at the desire of a friend who wished to know the subject of a song, and wrote an elegant translation, which was inserted, without her consent, in the leading maga- zine of the day. 13
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