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    "title": "Poems on Several Occasions, by Elizabeth Carter",
    "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
    "date": "poems composed c. 1738-1776",
    "summary": "Carter’s poems combine devotion, friendship, landscape, moral reflection, and occasions of social life. Odes, verse epistles, and occasional pieces bring classical learning, Christian faith, and female experience into conversation.",
    "learning": "Recognize Carter’s principal poetic genres, connect learned allusion with social occasion, and analyze the relation among devotion, friendship, and authorial voice.",
    "long_summary": "The collection moves from prayer to friendly address and from landscapes to reflection on time, virtue, or death. Classical and biblical references enlarge situations often linked to an identifiable addressee or event.\n\nOccasional poetry does not mean unworked improvisation. Carter varies voice, metre, and register according to the social bond involved. The volume’s unity comes less from continuous personal narrative than from a way of turning relationships and duties into poetic form.",
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        "medicine": "Anatomy and clinical observation advance; variolation and then vaccination appear, but anaesthesia, antisepsis, and microbes are not yet mastered.",
        "transport": "Walking, horses, stagecoaches, barges, and sailing ships. Roads and relays improve, but travel remains slow.",
        "agriculture": "Rotations, animal breeding, drainage, and new foods raise some yields while much labour remains manual.",
        "communication": "Newspapers, books, pamphlets, salons, and post move ideas at a new speed measured in days or weeks.",
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            "text": "Io fra romite Sponde, Mefto volgendo i pafii, Andro Chiedendo a i Saffi, La Ninfa mia dov’ €? Dal un a!’ altra Aurora, it Y’ andrd Chiamando ognora. E tu, &c. s Le amene Spiagge, o Nicfa. Ove Vivea felice A mi faran Tormento, Cento Memarie ¢ cento For ever Damen fhall be there, Attendant on thy W2y, But who can tell, &c I afk the Rocks, I afk the Streams, Where dwells my abfent Love? | The filent Eve, the rofy Morn, My conftant Search | furvey Oft I'll review the fmiling Scene, Each fav’rite Brook and Tree, | Where gayly paft the happy Hours, Thofe Hours I paft with thee. - What painful, fond Memorials rife From ev’ry Place I fee! . But who, &c Quanti vedrais-giungenda ; Al nuovo tuo Soggiorno, | Quanti venirti intorno Tenere Omaggi e pianti, Ah Dio! che fa fe mai Ti fovverrai di me? Penfa qual’ dolce Seible: : Cara, mi lafci in Seno: Penfa ch’ ama Fileno, Senza Sperar Merce, | Penfa, mia Nice, a queito Barbaro Adio funefto, Penfa -;;; ah chi fa fe mai Ti fovverrai di me! ! Their foft Addrefs fhall move, Surround thee in thy new Abode And tempt thy Soul to Love. Ah, who can tell, while fighing Crouds Their teider Homage pay; Ah, who can tell, if thou, my Dear Think, Delia, with how deep a Wound, The fweetly-painful Dart, Which thy Remembrance leaves behind, Has pierc’d a hopelefs Heart. Think on this fatal, fad Adieu, That fevers me from thee: ' Think ; Ab who knows, if thou, my Love W ute this gay Toy attraGs thy sight Thy Reafon let it warn; And feize, my Dear, that rapid ‘Time If idly loft, no Art or Care The Bleffing can reftore : And Heav’n exacts a ftrict Accoung- For ev’ry mif-fpent Hour And foon it’s Profpects end : Yet, on that Day’s uncertain Date * Eternal Years depend Yet equal to our Being’s Aim The Space to Virtue giv’n: And ev’ry Minute well improv’d",
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            "text": "Sur des rives solitaires,\nDirigeant tristement mes pas,\nJ’irai demander aux rochers:\n«Où est ma nymphe?»\nD’une aurore à l’autre,\nJe l’appellerai sans cesse.\nEt toi, etc.\n\nLes agréables rivages, ô Nice,\nOù je vivais heureux,\nMe seront un tourment;\nCent souvenirs et cent [texte interrompu].\n\nPour toujours Damon sera là,\nAttentif à ton chemin;\nMais qui peut dire, etc.\nJe demande aux rochers, je demande aux ruisseaux:\n«Où demeure mon amour absent?»\nLe soir silencieux, le matin rose\nContemplent ma recherche constante.\nSouvent je reverrai la scène souriante,\nChaque ruisseau et chaque arbre favoris,\nOù passèrent gaiement les heures heureuses,\nCes heures passées avec toi.\nQuels tendres et douloureux souvenirs\nS’élèvent de chaque lieu que je vois!\nMais qui, etc.\n\nCombien en verras-tu venir,\nLorsque tu atteindras ton nouveau séjour,\nCombien t’entoureront\nDe tendres hommages et de plaintes!\nAh Dieu! qui sait si jamais\nTu te souviendras de moi?\nPense à la douce [peine]\nQue, chère, tu laisses dans mon sein.\nPense que Fileno aime\nSans espérer de récompense.\nPense, ma Nice, à ce cruel\nEt funeste adieu.\nPense... Ah! qui sait si jamais\nTu te souviendras de moi?\n\nLeurs tendres discours t’émouvront,\nIls t’entoureront dans ta nouvelle demeure\nEt tenteront ton âme d’aimer.\nAh! qui peut dire, tandis que les foules soupirantes\nT’offrent leur tendre hommage,\nAh! qui peut dire si toi, ma chère [texte interrompu].\nPense, Delia, à la profonde blessure\nDont le trait doucement douloureux,\nQue laisse derrière lui ton souvenir,\nA percé un cœur sans espérance.\nPense à ce fatal et triste adieu\nQui me sépare de toi.\nPense... Ah! qui sait si toi, mon amour [texte interrompu].\n\nTandis que ce gai jouet attire ton regard,\nQue ta raison en reçoive l’avertissement;\nEt saisis, ma chère, ce temps rapide.\nS’il est perdu dans l’oisiveté, aucun art ni soin\nNe peut rendre la bénédiction;\nEt le Ciel exige un compte exact\nDe chaque heure mal employée.\nBientôt s’achèvent ses perspectives;\nPourtant, de la date incertaine de ce jour\nDépendent des années éternelles.\nL’espace accordé à la Vertu suffit cependant\nAu but de notre existence,\nEt chaque minute bien employée [texte interrompu].",
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