The book A Swan And Her Friends was written by author E V Edward Verrall Lucas Here you can read free online of A Swan And Her Friends book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Swan And Her Friends a good or bad book?
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To blame what all the world applaud ! She ceas'd but still my ears retain'd The deep vibration of her lays, And, in her magic fetters chain'd, She guides my censure and my praise. Hence he, who, on seraphic wings, Soar'd high above the starry spheres ; And, heaven-inspired, enraptured sings Seraphic strains to mortal ears. Impell'd by her vain whims, I tried To veil his bright meridian rays ; And fain I would, ah ! strange the pride I From Milton's temples snatch the bays. " When, " the British... Lady's Magazine adds, "the gentle- man called the next morning, and saw the completion of the task, he was too well convinced of the justice of the sarcasm it contained, and too much astonished at the brilliancy of style in which the deserved satire was conveyed, not to excuse the one and admire the other ; nor did he from that moment entertain the least doubt of the young lady's great literary abilities. " We may think what we like of the satire and the bril- liancy ; but the fact remains that Miss Seward even at that 26 THE" CYGNET'S FIRST NOTES early age was mapping out for herself a career which she did her best to follow.
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