Note 34 — MEMOIRS OF DOCTOR BURNEY. (continued 3)
Reading edition
No truth can be more simply exact than that which is conveyed in four lines of the stanzas which she addressed to him in the secret dedication of her first work, Evelina, viz.
If in my heart the love of virtue glows ’Twas kindled there by an unerring rule; From thy example the pure flame arose, Thy life my precept; thy good works my school.