Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen, Volume 3R. Bentley, 1844 - Great Britain |
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Page 140 - the sisters virtuous. This Duchess was a wise, witty, and learned lady, which her many books do well testify: she was a most virtuous, loving, and careful wife ; and was with her lord all the time of his banishment and miseries ; and when they came home, never parted with him in his solitary retirements.
Page 165 - near adjoining lay, A plenteous province and alluring prey. A chamber of Dependencies was framed, (As conquerors will never want pretence, When arm'd, to justify th' offence,) And the whole fief, in right of Poetry, she claimed. The country open lay, without defence : For poets frequent inroads there had made, And perfectly could represent
Page 165 - Thou, youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the blest ; Whose palms, new-pluck'd from Paradise, In spreading branches more sublimely rise, Rich with immortal green above the rest : Whether, adopted to some neighbouring star, Thou roll'st above us, in thy
Page 165 - Which them at once admire and fear. The ruins, too, of some majestic piece, Boasting the power of ancient Rome or Greece, Whose statues, friezes, columns, broken lie, And, tho' defac'd, the wonder of the eye; What nature, art, bold fiction ere durst frame, Her forming hand gave feature to the name. So strange a concourse
Page 80 - From east to west his glories he displays, And, like the sun, the promised land surveys. Fame flies before him as the morning star, And shouts of joy salute him from afar. Each house receives him as a guardian god, And consecrates the place of his abode.
Page 165 - so bright, Beauty alone could beauty take so right : Her dress, her shape, her matchless grace, Were all observ'd as well as heavenly face. With such a peerless majesty she stands, As in that day she took the crown from sacred hands : Before a train of heroines was seen, In beauty foremost, as in rank, the Queen.
Page 165 - Latin laurels wore, And was that Sappho last, which once it was before. If so, then cease thy flight, O heaven-born mind ! Thou hast no dross to purge from thy rich ore ; Nor can thy soul a fairer mansion find, Than was the beauteous
Page 165 - Twas Cupid bathing in Diana's stream. VI. Born to the spacious empire of the Nine, One would have thought she should have been content To manage well that mighty government ; But what can young ambitious souls confine ? To the next realm she stretched her sway, For
Page 219 - ruin'd cause. Retrieve lost empire to our sex, That men may bow their rebel necks. Long be the day that gave you birth Sacred to friendship, wit, and mirth ; Late dying, may you cast a shred Of your rich mantle o'er my head; To bear with dignity my sorrow, One day alone, then die to-morrow.
Page 34 - having some other considerations. Your friends at Ely are well. Your sister Claypole is (I trust in mercy) exercised with some perplexed thoughts-, she sees her own vanity and carnal mind, bewailing it ; she seeks after, as I hope also, that which will satisfy. And thus to be a seeker is to be of the best sect next to a finder