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" a topic of public conversation. [FROM THE BATH HERALD.] CARABOO. OH ! aid me, ye spirits of wonder! who soar In realms of Romance where none ventur'd before ; Ye Fairies ! who govern the fancies of men, And sit on the point of Monk Lewis's pen ; Ye mysterious... "
Caraboo: A Narrative of a Singular Imposition Practised Upon the Benevolence ... - Page 61
by John Mathew Gutch - 1817 - 66 pages
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Caraboo: A Narrative of a Singular Imposition, Practised by a Young Woman of ...

John Mathew Gutch - Impostors and imposture - 1817 - 82 pages
...appeared in the different'BRISTOL and BATH NEWSPAPERS, during the period which this imposture formed a topic of public conversation. [FROM THE BATH HERALD.]...pen ; Ye mysterious Elves ! who for ever remain With Litsits Naturees, and Ghosts of Cock-lane ; Who ride upon broom-sticks, intent to deceive All those...
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Fictions and Fakes: Forging Romantic Authenticity, 1760-1845

Margaret Russett - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 19 pages
...imbibed from the circulating libraries. A squib published in The Bath Herald predictably solicited the “spirits of wonder! who soar / In realms of Romance...men, / And sit on the point of Monk Lewis's pen” in order to praise Caraboo as she deserved (quoted in Caraboo 6i). Yet if her many admirers were thus...
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The Edinburgh Observer: Or, Town and Country Magazine, Issues 1-11

1817 - 292 pages
...qftttr 1 name of Mary IVilcox, alia* Baker, alias Bakcrstcndt, alias Carabao, Princess ofjavusu. Он ! aid me, ye Spirits of wonder ! who soar In realms...govern the fancies of men, And sit on the point of Monk Lewis'* pen ; Ye mysterious Elves ! who for ever remain With ¡usas natarirs, and ghosts of Cock-lane;...
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