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AMYNTAS.
X.
Nay, such nice heights thy powers can reach,
With thee such varied rhetorick dwells,
That even the struggling, broken speech
The modelled period far excells.
Nay, such nice heights thy powers can reach,
With thee such varied rhetorick dwells,
That even the struggling, broken speech
The modelled period far excells.
XI.
Thy silence oft, in striking pause,
The lover's great ideas paints;
Sublime conception is it's cause;
The mind expands, but language faints.
Thy silence oft, in striking pause,
The lover's great ideas paints;
Sublime conception is it's cause;
The mind expands, but language faints.
XII.
Free, uncompressed, the thought appears,
Which words would aukwardly controul;
And nature holds our eyes, and ears;
We seem to hear, and see the soul.
Free, uncompressed, the thought appears,
Which words would aukwardly controul;
And nature holds our eyes, and ears;
We seem to hear, and see the soul.
XIII.
The lettered youth let Plato's page
With generous sentiment inspire;
I'm better taught than by a sage,
And catch a more ethereal fire.
The lettered youth let Plato's page
With generous sentiment inspire;
I'm better taught than by a sage,
And catch a more ethereal fire.
A nobler
