From ber" Mifcellanies," Oxford, 1750 A ballade of the not-browne mayde. From Mr. Capels "Prolufions," 1760, compared with the "Reliques of ancient English poetry," 1775 Harpalus complaint of Phillidaes love beftowed on Corin, who loved her not; and denied him that loved her. From " Songes and sonettes written An epitaph on a poor boneft man; intended to be plac'd on a fone in the chancel of the church of 324 344 SILENT Nymph, with curious eye! Who, the purple evʼning, lie *Born 1700; dyed 1758. VOL. II. * 5 Or the tuneful nightingale Draw the landskip bright and ftrong; With my hand beneath my head; While ftray'd my eyes o'er Towy's flood, 10 15 20 From house to house, from hill to hill, 25 Till Contemplation had her fill. About his chequer'd fides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind, And viftoes fhooting beams of day: Wide and wider spreads the vale; As circles on a fmooth canal: The mountains round, unhappy fate! Sooner or later, of all height, DYER. Withdraw their fummits from the skies, Still the prospect wider spreads, Adds a thousand woods and meads; Still it widens, widens ftill, And finks the newly-rifen hill. 40 Now I gain the mountain's brow, What a landskip lies below! No clouds, no vapours intervene, But the gay, the open scene Does the face of nature show, In all the hues of heaven's bow! Old caftles on the cliffs arise, And glitters on the broken rocks! Below me trees unnumber'd rife, Beautiful in various dyes: The gloomy pine, the poplar blue, The yellow beech, the fable yew, The flender fir, that taper grows, The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs. |