talk'd-of

Updated: May 23, 2025

The author remembers how "a Lady of my Acquaintance, perhaps not without reason, fell one day, as she was sitting with me, into this Poetical Exclamation: 'The Pen can furrow a fond Female's Heart, And pierce it more than Cupid's talk'd-of Dart: Letters, a kind of Magick Virtue have, And, like strong Philters, human Souls enslave!" But the impression left by this and others of Mrs.

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