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The Stage.
THE STAGE .
Continued from p . 18 5 . , BY JOHN TAYLOR , ESQ .
NEXT POPE * , a vot ' ry of the sportive maid , From nature ' s source deriving potent aid , Comes laughing forward , conscious of renown , And sure of favour from a partial town . For humour ' s sprig htly province though design'd , Her pow ' rs to narrow limits are confin'd ; Unblest with requisites for polish'd scenes
, To lower life her genius chiefly leans . . Where city-pride with upstart pertness tries , In sprightly ease , its coarseness to disguise , All the mock elegance in POPE we meet Of fine Cheapside , or solid Lombard-street . Thus in Miss Sterling , she presents to view
A finish'd proof of what . the author drew . But when she fondly labours to appear With the nsce breeding of a higher sphere , In HOADLEY ' lively scenes aspires to please , . With all the polish'd grace of genuine ease , Clarinda ' s manners lost , she seems no more Than Abigail in what hermistress wore ;
The vain attempt with pity we survey , And g rieve that pride should talents thus betray . Here let the muse repress th' unfriendly aim , Nor dwell on so much worth with churlish blame- — POPE copies life with truth , if not with grace , And rears her fame on merit ' s solid base . But wherealas ! can gentle KiSMULE-f- stray
, , Whose modest worth may well adorn the lay , She who must critic spleen at once disarm , With sweet simplicity's resistless charm ? Ah ! why thus doom'd to wander from the place That best can feel her soft and touching grace ; Why from that scene thus strangely forc'd to roam ,
Where genius fondl y seeks a fav ' rite home ? Notform'd to wield the terrors of the stage , To burn with proud Alicia ' s mad ' ning rage , Or with Macbeth ' s ambitious partner swell , Invoking horrors from the pow ' rs of hell ; Hers is the gentler empire o ' er the mind , The pensive , the pathetic , and the kind :
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The Stage.
THE STAGE .
Continued from p . 18 5 . , BY JOHN TAYLOR , ESQ .
NEXT POPE * , a vot ' ry of the sportive maid , From nature ' s source deriving potent aid , Comes laughing forward , conscious of renown , And sure of favour from a partial town . For humour ' s sprig htly province though design'd , Her pow ' rs to narrow limits are confin'd ; Unblest with requisites for polish'd scenes
, To lower life her genius chiefly leans . . Where city-pride with upstart pertness tries , In sprightly ease , its coarseness to disguise , All the mock elegance in POPE we meet Of fine Cheapside , or solid Lombard-street . Thus in Miss Sterling , she presents to view
A finish'd proof of what . the author drew . But when she fondly labours to appear With the nsce breeding of a higher sphere , In HOADLEY ' lively scenes aspires to please , . With all the polish'd grace of genuine ease , Clarinda ' s manners lost , she seems no more Than Abigail in what hermistress wore ;
The vain attempt with pity we survey , And g rieve that pride should talents thus betray . Here let the muse repress th' unfriendly aim , Nor dwell on so much worth with churlish blame- — POPE copies life with truth , if not with grace , And rears her fame on merit ' s solid base . But wherealas ! can gentle KiSMULE-f- stray
, , Whose modest worth may well adorn the lay , She who must critic spleen at once disarm , With sweet simplicity's resistless charm ? Ah ! why thus doom'd to wander from the place That best can feel her soft and touching grace ; Why from that scene thus strangely forc'd to roam ,
Where genius fondl y seeks a fav ' rite home ? Notform'd to wield the terrors of the stage , To burn with proud Alicia ' s mad ' ning rage , Or with Macbeth ' s ambitious partner swell , Invoking horrors from the pow ' rs of hell ; Hers is the gentler empire o ' er the mind , The pensive , the pathetic , and the kind :