 | John Bell - 1778 - 438 pages
...Unmix'd with foreign filth, and undcfil'd ; 69 ( Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child ) V. Art she had none, yet wanted none, For nature did...supply ; So rich in treasures of her own, She might our hoasted stores defy. Such noble vigour did her verse adorn, -e That it seem'd horrow'd, wbe* 'twas... | |
 | Mary Hays - 1803 - 520 pages
...Dryden, who is lavish in her commendation, thus compliments her, in an od6 prefixed to her poems : " Art she had none, yet wanted none, For nature did that want supply, So rich in treasure of her own She might our boasted stores defy : Such noble vigour did her verse adorn, That... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...Unmix'd wilh foreign filth, and undefiled ; Her wit was more than man ; her innocence, a child. V. Art she had none ; yet wanted none ; For nature did...defy. Such noble vigour did her verse adorn, That it seem'd borrow'd, where 'twas only born. Her morals, too, were in her bosom bred, By great examples... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 pages
...unsoiled, Unmixed with foreign filth, and undefiled; Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. * V. Art she had none, yet wanted none; For nature did...adorn, That it seemed borrowed where 'twas only born. Her morals, too, were in her bosom bred, By great examples daily fed, What in the best of books, her... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 pages
...Unmixed with foreign filth, and undefiled ; Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. * V. Art she had none, yet wanted none ; For nature did...adorn, That it seemed borrowed where 'twas only born. Her morals, too, were in her bosom bred, By great examples daily fed, What in the best of books, her... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 490 pages
...SolemnU.d the '^ "Hov Uess'd frl? to there thy S'^ "Hove above. """""" holy-day arraoily SIO JOHN DRYD,EN. Art she had none, yet wanted none, For Nature did...defy : Such noble vigour did her verse adorn, That it seem'd borrow'd, where 'twas only born, Her morals, too, were in her bosom bred, By great examples... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...'1 2ach test, and every light, her Muse will bear, > fhough Epicietus, with his lamp, were there. J Art she had none, yet wanted none, For Nature did...stores defy : Such noble vigour did her verse adorn, Thai it seem'd borrow'd, where 'twas only born. Her morals, too, weie m her bosom bred, By great examples... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...unmix'd with foreign filth, and undefil'd ; her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. FArt she had none, yet wanted none ; for nature did that...treasures of her own, she might our boasted stores def}' •. such noble vigour did her verse adorn, that it seein'd borrow'd, where 't was only bon Her... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...was more than man, her innocence a child'. Art she had none, yet wanted none ; for nature did thai want supply : so rich in treasures of her own, she...defy : such noble vigour did her verse adorn, that it seem'd borrow'd, where 't was only bom. Her morals too were in her bosom bred, by great examples daily... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...was more than man, her innocence a child1. Art she had none, yet wanted none ; for nature did thai want supply : so rich in treasures of her own, she...defy : such noble vigour did her verse adorn, that it seem'd borrow'd, where 't was only born. Her morals too were in her bosom bred, by great examples daily... | |
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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 seemed borrowed, where 'twas only born. 
