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Fables Antient and Modern; Translated Into Verse From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: With Original Poems
Fables Antient and Modern Translated Into Verse From Homer Ovid Boccace and Chaucer With Original Poems Author:John Dryden General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1713 Original Publisher: Printed for J. Tonson Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. Whe... more »n you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE MONUMENT O F A £ Fair Maiden L A D Y, , ; ,.| TO0 /yV BATH, and is there Interr'd, Elow this Marble Monument, is Iai4 All that Heav'n wants of this Cele- ftialMaid. fconfiffn'd- Preferve, O facred Tomb, thy Truft ' The Mold was made on purpofe for the Mind: And fhe wou'd lofe, if at the latter Day One Atom cou'd be mix'd, of other Clay. ' Such were the Features of her Heav'nly Facex Her Limbs were fornVd with fu. ch harmpniou Qrace, L I 3 So faultlefs was the Frame, as if the Whole Had been an Emanation of the Soul; "Which her own inward Symmetry reveal'd; And like a Pifture fhone, in Glafs Anneal'd. Or like the Sun eclips'd, with fhaded Light: Too piercing, elfe, to be fuftain'd by Sight. Each Thought was vifible that rowl'd within : As through a Cryftal Cafe, the figur'd Hours are feen. And Heav'n did this tranfparent Veil provide, Becaufe fhe had no guilty Thought to hide. All white, a Virgin-Saint, me fought the Skies: For Marriage, tho' it fullies not, it dyes. High tho'her Wit, yet Humble was her Mind; . As if flie cou'd not, or fhe wou'd not find How much her Worth tranfcended all her Kind. Yet fhe had learn'd fo much of Heav'n below, That whenarriv'd, fhe fcarcehad moreto know: But only to refrefh the former Hint; And read her Maker in a fairer Print. So Pious, as fhe had no Time to fpare For human Thoughts, but was confin'd toPray'r. r The Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady. 5 -? Yet in fuch Char...« less