P་་ཨ་ལ་ And Of that proud tyrant sex of hers. Cruel unknown! what is it you intend? Ah! could you, could you hope a poet for friend! Rather forgive what my first transport said: May all the blood, which shall by woman's be shed, Lie upon you and on your children's head! For you (ah! did I think I e'er should live to The fatal time when that could be!) Have ev'n increas'd their pride and cruelty Woman seems now above all vanity grown, Still boasting of her great unknown Platonic champions, gain'd without one female Or the vast charges of a smile; Which 'tis a shame to see how much of late You've taught the covetous wretches to o'er And which they've now the consciences to we In the same balance with our tears, And with such scanty wages pay The bondage and the slavery of years. XI. ng and how vain, an, our learning and our wit! he'er I think of it: ing of an unhappy scene king and conqueror's death, elancholy Muse s utmost breath. work most happily begun onderfully carry'd on, cerest, folly, and abuse. ontide in our lives, e sooner it arrives, our winter sun looks bright, d to see it at its height, r comes the long and gloomy Yet shall these traces of your wit remain, Of conquest in your short and happy reign: How strange a paradox is true, That men who liv'd and died without a name Are the chief heroes in the sacred list of fame. re of a consolatory turn, they would n after the representation of Congreve's le Dealer, which was acted in 1693-4, passages in the dedication, to have been by the critics than the Old Bachelor. ongreve continued sincerely ardent, even them. His intercession with the Lord. ns of Congreve's retaining his offices tration. See Vol. II. p. 283.] ophet's voice, and prophet's in a poetic hour, e, the slighted maid r unregarded aid; we form in spirits divine, neglect, and thus reproaches nk to 's prostituting her they firs Thus did the muse severe f'ring long design'd t chid the zeal as unpoet ich soon his merit forced call this verse, that spe greatest compliment she wisely judge, no pow'r l ad leap the bounds which ur'd! false is the pretence retreat, and innocence ! shades, bring'st with thee down s vices of the town; h from out this isle before lov'd, and favour'd more, mine; youth, believe, to you un ughty gulf, unpassable be r tax the goddess of a m praise your parts by publi be my thought when son s in the front the ambitio e to surmount what bears the victorious wren pe wing:* .* could I do, and proudly e my desires but heighten This absurd simile was transferred in the notable lines, Perch'd on the eagle's towering By prostituting her they first debauch. Which soon his merit forced her to inspire; For, youth, believe, to you unseen, is fix'd Nor tax the goddess of a mean design There to surmount what bears me up, and sing Like the victorious wren perch'd on the eag wing;* This could I do, and proudly o'er him tower, Were my desires but heighten'd to my power. * This absurd simile was transferred by Colley Cibber to linnet, in the notable lines, Perch'd on the eagle's towering wing, |