ciamara

Updated: June 28, 2025

"Epistles for the Ladies" was not the first "attempt to employ the ornaments of romance in the decoration of religion" nor the best, but along with the pious substance the author sometimes adopts an almost Johnsonian weightiness of style, as when Ciamara gives to Sophronia an account of the finishing of a fine building she had been at an infinite expense in erecting, with some moral reflections on the vanity and disappointment of all sub-lunary expectations.

George Frisbie Whicher - The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood