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Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintr (第1/3页)
epistle to rraham, esq., of fintry requesting a favour when nature her great master-piece design'd, and fram'd her last, best work, the human mind, her eye i on all the mazy plan, she form'd of various parts the various man. then first she calls the useful many forth; plain plodding industry, and sober worth: thence peasants, farmers, native sons of earth, and merdise' whole genus take their birth: each prudent cit a warm existence finds, and all meics' many-apron'd kinds. some other rarer sorts are wanted yet, the lead and buoy are needful to the : the caput mortuum of grnss desires makes a material for mere knights and squires; the martial phosphorus is taught to flow, she kneads the lumpish philosophic dough, then marks th' unyielding mass with grave designs, law, physic, politics, and deep divines; last, she sublimes th' aurora of the poles, the flashing elements of female souls. the order'd system fair before her stood, nature, well pleas'd, pronounc'd it very good; but ere she gave creating labour o'er, half-jest, she tried one curious labour more. some spumy, fiery, ignis fatuus matter, such as the slightest breath of air might scatter; with arch-alacrity and scious glee, (nature may have her whim as well as we, her hogarth-art perhaps she meant to show it), she forms the thing and christens it—a poet: creature, tho' oft the prey of care and sorrow, wheo-day, unmindful of t
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