of Solomon, has recorded nothing of Deborah but her hymns and prophecies, her victories and her laws.
DEBORAH, Wife of Ascaliel, a Jewish Rabbi at Rome, in the beginning of the 17th Century,
Applied herself to Italian poetry, and translated many works from the Hebrew into that language.
She was the daughter of Bernard Glanville,[1] afterwards Lord Lansdowne, a nobleman whose abilities and virtues, whose character as a poet, whose friendship with Pope, Swift, and other eminent writers of the time, and whose general patronage of men of genius and literature, have so often been recorded in biographical productions, that they cannot be unknown to any of our readers. As the child of such a family, she could not fail of receiving the best education. It was at Long Leat, the seat of the Weymouth family, which was occupied by Lord Lansdowne during the minority of the heir of that family, that Miss Glanville first saw Alexander Pendarves, Esq. a gentleman of large property at Roscrow, in Cornwall, who immediately paid his addresses to her; which were so strenuously supported by her uncle, whom she had not the courage to deny, that she gave a reluctant consent to the match; and accordingly it took place in
- ↑ The personage described here is George Granville, the brother of Col. Bernard. (Wikisource contributor note)
