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    Or; the least of the Violets. 8S

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    Blue-Stocking Or The Feast Of The By Lei...

    As backward its wheels in the cup began sinking : And round it , the Water-Nymphs , with their eyes winking , Plash'd , patting the horses , and loos ' ning the reins , While the lute through the lustre sent flooding its strains , Enriching the brine and the clouds : ( for those colours You see in the sunset—hear , hear it , ye scholars 1—

    Are partly by light made , and partly by sound , Which deepens their beauty ; as blushes are found To deepen in _checks at sweet words ) . Thus sang he , Flicker-veil'd in his brightness , like bird in a tree , When lo ! he saw coming- towards him , in pairs ,

    Such doves of Petitions , and loves of sweet Pray ' rs , _* All _landing , as each _touch'd his chariot , in sighs , And begging his aid in behalf of bright eyes , That it made him look sharper , to see whence they came : — The windows on earth , at the flash of that aim , Burst suddenly all into diamonds and flame .

    " By Jove ! " said Apollo , " well thought on . —IVe dined With the Poets : —' tis now highly proper , I find , To descend ( and with finger-tips here he fell trimming His love-locks celestial ) and sup with the Women . " He said ; and some messages giving those daughters Of Ocean , —arch-eyed , —buxom dancers in waters , —

    They gave him some answer ( I never heard what ) Which they paid for , i'faith , with a dance on the spot ; For shaking his locks , and a pleasant frown casting ; He thrust his car back with his foot everlasting , And sprang up in air with a bound so divine , As sous'd their sweet souls in the roar of the brine .

    Then laughing the laugh of the gods , he rose higher , And higher , and higher , on the whirl of his fire , Lark mighty ; till chusing his road , like the dove , Which bears at its warm bosom letters of love , He shot , all at once , in a long trail of light , Like the star that comes liquidly through the soft night , And stood in a _" House to Let , " facing Hyde Park , " Unfurnished ; " but not so , ye gods , before dark !

    ( 3 ) Homer , in the ninth Iliad , v . 498 , describes Prayers , though the daughters of Jove , as very ill-favoured old gentlewomen , lame , wrinkled * and with a cast in the eye ; — squinting , " says Mr Keightley ; and his epical plain-speaking is meritorious ; but by the original word ' _jrocp _^ _KcuTTti we conceive the poet to mean looking askance , — h _aving an eve , as it were , to the mischief that is being perpetrated , and which he

    represent * them as paying due attention to , though slowly . Be this as it may , 1 have ventured upon the license of Spenser and others , in making a bit of mythology of my own ; it being impossible to suppose the Prayen in the text to have been of any such description as Hornet ' s , Whatever may have been the _mitthitf ibey had in _Iheif _© yt _.

    Or; The Least Of The Violets. 8s

    Or ; the least of the Violets . 8 S

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 35, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/33/