"By mercy prompted his correcting hand / Inflicts the stroke of salutary pain, / To check tyrannic Passions's wild demand, / And free our Reason from it's slavish chain."
To Miss Sutton [from Poems on Several Occasions]
At least 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1776, 1789, 1777.<br>
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See <u>Poems on Several Occasions.</u> (London: Printed for John, Francis and Charles Rivington, at the Bible and Crown (no 62.) in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1776). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111730587&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Women Writers Online: Elizabeth Carter, <u>Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, with a New Edition of her Poems</u>, Ed. Montagu Pennington, 2 vols. (London: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1816). &lt;<a href="http://textbase.wwp.brown.edu/WWO/php/wAll.php?doc=carter.poems.html">Link to WWO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirslifemrse00unkngoog#page/n7/mode/2up">Same edition in Internet Archive</a>&gt;