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certainly spring a more vigorous plant, which scattering its seeds, might in time, phoenix-like, grow up a wood. And from the buried remains of the child, when its body was converted into its original elements,
Who dare be so rash to say
But thence some milkye vapours given
May feed some new-born star in heaven?
But thence some milkye vapours given
May feed some new-born star in heaven?
Nay more; who will say, but while the body of the child, reduced to its original elements, is affording nourishment to the new-born star, its sonl may be destined to be its inhabitant, and the companion of its course, through the etherial space?
Thou, youngest virgin-daughter of the skies—
Whether adopted to some neighbouring star,
Thou roll'st above us in thy wandering race, &c.
Deyden's Ode, on Killigrew.
Whether adopted to some neighbouring star,
Thou roll'st above us in thy wandering race, &c.
Deyden's Ode, on Killigrew.
There's not the smallest orb which thou beholdst,
But in his motion like an angel sings;
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims.
Shakspeare.
But in his motion like an angel sings;
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims.
Shakspeare.
In what new region to the just assigned,
What new employments please th' unbodied mind?
A winged virtue through th' etherial sky,
From world to world unwearied does he fly?
Or, curious trace, the long laborious maze,
Of Heaven's decrees, where wondering angels gaze?
Tickell, on the Death of Addison.
What new employments please th' unbodied mind?
A winged virtue through th' etherial sky,
From world to world unwearied does he fly?
Or, curious trace, the long laborious maze,
Of Heaven's decrees, where wondering angels gaze?
Tickell, on the Death of Addison.
P. 74. On the first perusal of the opening lines of this poem, one would suppose thatthe poet meant, he had left his mistress young and fair, and had found
