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Newspaper cutting: poem on unrequited love

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 2. Bastian (1962: 185-186) seems to attribute (a large extract of) this poem not to John Hope but to James Ralph (1705?-1762). In any case, the melodramatic picture of a lover toyed with by an artful, deceiving woman and dying of a broken heart is quite foreign to what we know of Hope's relationship with Hamilton; cf. his letter acknowledging her rejection of his proposal (HAM/1/6/8/26). The gentler melancholy of his published ‘Song’ (HAM/1/6/8/33) would perhaps fit better.

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 1. No transcription is provided for images of print.
 2. Bastian (1962: 185-186) seems to attribute (a large extract of) this poem not to John Hope but to James Ralph (1705?-1762). In any case, the melodramatic picture of a lover toyed with by an artful, deceiving woman and dying of a broken heart is quite foreign to what we know of Hope's relationship with Hamilton; cf. his letter acknowledging her rejection of his proposal (HAM/1/6/8/26). The gentler melancholy of his published ‘Song’ (HAM/1/6/8/33) would perhaps fit better.

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Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Newspaper cutting: poem on unrequited love

Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/8/30

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Date: n.d.

Summary: Newspaper cutting containing verses on unrequited love, beginning: 'Condemn'd unheard, unpitied to complain, | To lose the Object, yet the Wish retain, | are mine:- 'Tis yours to trifle and deceive: | 'Tis all that Friendship, all that Love can give'.
    [The verses may allude to Mary Hamilton's rejection of his offer of marriage, but they may not be by Hope himself.]
   

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Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers' (Hannah Barker, Sophie Coulombeau, David Denison, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph, Christine Wallis & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2019-2023).

All quotation marks are retained in the text and are represented by appropriate Unicode characters. Words split across two lines may have a hyphen on the first, the second or both fragments (reco-|ver, imperfect|-ly, satisfacti-|-on); or a double hyphen (pur=|port, dan|=ger, qua=|=litys); or none (respect|ing). Any point in abbreviations with superscripted letter(s) is placed last, regardless of relative left-right orientation in the original. Thus, Mrs. or Mrs may occur, but M.rs or Mr.s do not.

Acknowledgements: Transcription and XML version created as part of project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers', funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council under grant AH/S007121/1.

Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library

Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors

Revision date: 6 January 2022

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