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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 70
edited by - 1779
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The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 4

1774 - 846 pages
...memory in the church at Hagley, which contains the following infcription, written by her hufband: Made to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes: Though meek, magnanimous •, though witly, wife; Polite, as all her life in courts had been; Yet good, as fhe the world had neverfeen;...
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The Peerage of Ireland: Or, A Genealogical History of the Present ..., Volume 7

John Lodge - 1789 - 344 pages
...religion and virtue. Made to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes ; Tho' meek, magnanimous ; tho' witty, wife ; Polite, as all her life in courts had...exalted mind, With gentle female tendernefs combin'd. i Her fpeech was the melodious voice of love, Her fong the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

1791 - 316 pages
...hufband : Made to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes ; Though meek, magnanimous ; tho' witty, wile ; Polite, as all her life in courts had been ; Yet good,...never feen ; The noble fire of an exalted mind With gentleft female tendernefs combin'd. Her fpeech was the melodious voice of love, Her fong the warbling...
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Essays on the Lives and Writings of Fletcher of Saltoun and the Poet Thomson ...

David Stewart Erskine Earl of Buchan - 1792 - 348 pages
...is lefs known. — " Made te engage all hearts, and charm all eyes. " Tho' meek, magnanimous ; tho' witty, wife ; " Polite, as all her life in courts had been ; •" Yet good, as lhe the world had never feen ; " The noble fire of an exalted mind 41 With gentleft female tendernefs...
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The English Anthology, Volume 2

Joseph Ritson - 1794 - 410 pages
...itfclf is blelh VERSES, MAKING PART OF AN EPITAPH, ON ' HIS' LADY. BY GEORGE LORD LYTTELTON.* JM ADE to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes ; Though...had never feen ; The noble fire of an exalted mind, 5 With gentle female tendernefs combin'd. Her fpeech was the melodious voice of Love, Her fong the...
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the english anthology

T AGERTON - 1794 - 390 pages
...itfelf is bleft. VERSES, MAKING PART OF AN EPITAPH, ON ' HIS' LADY. BY GEORGE LORD LYTTELTON." JV1 ADE to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes ; Though...had never feen ; The noble fire of an exalted mind, 5 With gentle female tendernefs combin'd. Her fpeech was the melodious voice of Love, Her fong the...
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The Works of the British Poets, Volume 10

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1036 pages
...twenty-nine, ploj-cd the (hurt time aflfigr.cd to her here ^ Bdonn practice of religion and virtue. Made to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes ; Though...as all her life in courts had been ; Yet good, as (he the world had never feen ; The noble fire of an exalted mind, With gentle female tendernefs combin'd....
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 10

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1056 pages
...H«itg employed the (hurt time afligncd to her here la etc aniform practice «t religion and virtue. to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes ; Though meek, magnanimous; though witty, wife; r>olite, a> all her life in courts had been ; Yet good, as flic the world had never feen; The noble...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 10, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 422 pages
...hufband ; Made to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes : Tho' meek, magnanimous ; tho' witty, wife j Polite, as all her life in courts had been ; Yet good, as (he the world had never fcen : The noble fire of an exalted mind, With gentleft female tendernefs combin'd....
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The British Tourists; Or Traveller's Pocket Companion, Through ..., Volume 3

William Fordyce Mavor - 1798 - 346 pages
...pen of her hufband : " Made to engage all hearts, and chirm all eyes; Tho' meek, magnanimous ; tho' witty, wife; Polite, as all her life in courts had been, Yet good as fhe the worM had never fcen ; The noble fire of an exalted mind, With gentlelr female tendernefs combined....
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