Lives of English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White Designed As a Continuation
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Who, Sappho, wounds thy tender breast ? Say, flies he 1 soon he shall pursue : Shuns he thy gifts ? he soon shall give : Slights he thy sorrows ? he shall grieve. And soon to all thy wishes bow. Akenside, b. 1, Ode 13. This, though not unexceptionable, and particularly in the last verse, has yet a tenderness and spirit utterly wanting in Mason. What from my power would Sappho claim ? Who scorns thy flame ? 218 LIVES or ENGLISH POETS. What wayward boy- Disdains to yield tlieejoy for joy? Soon sh...all he court the bliss he flies ; Soon beg- the boon he now denies, And, hastening back to love and thee, Repay the wrong* with extacy. In the Pygmalion, a lyrical scene, he has made an effort equally vain, to represent the impassioned elo- quence of Jean Jaques Rousseau. In his shorter poems, there is too frequent a re- currence of the same machinery, and that, such as it needed but little invention to create. Either the poet himself, or some other person, is introduced, musing by a stream or lake, or in a forest, when the appearance of some celestial visitant, muse, spirit, or angel, suddenly awakens his attention.
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