 Art she had none, yet wanted none, For Nature did that Want supply: So rich in Treasures of her Own, She might our boasted Stores defy: Such Noble Vigour did her Verse adorn, That it seem'd borrow'd, where 'twas only born.  Specimens of the British Poets ... - Page 216by British poets - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 530 pages
...unsoiled, Unmixed with foreign filth and undefined; Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. Art she had none, yet wanted none, For Nature did...defy: Such noble vigour did her verse adorn That it seemed borrowed, where 'twas only born. Her morals too were in her bosom bred, By great examples daily... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1896 - 520 pages
...unsoiled, Unmixed with foreign filth and undefiled ; Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. Art she had none, yet wanted none, For Nature did...defy : Such noble vigour did her verse adorn That it seemed borrowed, where 'twas only born. Her morals too were in her bosom bred, By great examples daily... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...unsoil'd, Unmix'd with foreign filth, anil urnlefiled ; Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. Art she had none, yet wanted none ; For nature did...defy : Such noble vigour did her verse adorn, That it seenVd borrow'd, where 'twas only born. Her morals too were in her bosom bred, By great examples dally... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...unsoil'd, Unmix'd with foreign filth, and undefiled; Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. Art she had none, yet wanted none ; For nature did...defy : Such noble vigour did her verse adorn, That it seenvd borrow'd, where 'twai only bom. Her morals too were in her bosom bred, By great examples dally... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 490 pages
...unsoiled, Unmixed with foreign filth and undefiled; Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. Art she had none, yet wanted none, For Nature did...own, She might our boasted stores defy: Such noble vigor did her verse adorn That it seemed borrowed, where 'twas only born. Her morals too were in her... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - Elegiac poetry - 1900 - 330 pages
...unsoiled, Unmixed with foreign filth, and undefiled ; Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. Art she had none, yet wanted none ; For Nature did...defy : Such noble vigour did her verse adorn, That it seemed borrowed where 'twas only born. Her morals, too, were in her bosom bred, By great examples daily... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1900 - 760 pages
...undented ; Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. 70 Art she had none, yet wanted none, s For Nature did that want supply : So rich in treasures...stores defy : Such noble vigour did her verse adorn 75 That it seemed borrowed, where 'twas only born. Her morals too were in her bosom bred, By great... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 390 pages
...however, there are some lines in this singular ode that are worthy of Dryden himself. He says of her : "Art she had none, yet wanted none; For nature did...defy ; Such noble vigour did her verse adorn, That it seemed borrowed where 'twas only born." And again : " Unmixed with foreign filth, and undefiled, Her... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 532 pages
...unsoiled, Unmixed with foreign filth and undefiled; Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. Art she had none, yet wanted none, For Nature did that want supply: So rich in treasures of her M» T U, She might our boasted stores defy: Such noble vigour did her verse adorn That it Deemed borrowed,... | |
 | Mary Lloyd - Elegiac poetry - 1903 - 352 pages
...For all thy blest fraternity of love Solemniz'd there thy birth, and kept thy holiday above. \ j v. Art she had none, yet wanted none ; For nature did...did her verse adorn, That it seem'd borrow'd, where 't was only born. :•!,) Her morals too were in her bosom bred, If By great examples daily fed, '•'''•... | |
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