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BNL.727.003
2-9 Mar 1727:21,22 (10)
[letter to the editor with verses to be sung; . . . 1 para,
then:]
For your present entertainment, I transmit to you a copy of
verses, accidentally fallen into my hands, and written, as I
am informed, by a gentleman who has acquired a knack of
producing rhimes, without the unnecessary trouble and
fatigue of thinking. You will find in this musical
composition, a variety of very agreeable images thrown
together without any order or connection. There breaths a
wonderful softness and delicacy thro' the lines, at the same
time that the author's intellectuals seem to be impaired and
weakened. In short, the whole song appears to me, to be a
pretty exact picture of one who possesses a lively
imagination, but with all has his brains a little turned
with an amour. The stanzas will doubtless find advocates
among the admirers of a superficial harmony of numbers,
without a propriety of thought, and justness of expression.
And I question not but those writers who subsist upon a set
of elegant words rather than a regular chain of ideas, or a
due understanding of their subject will be able to call out
the several beauties of this melodious performance, and
transfer them to their own great emoloument. . .
ON THE CELESTIAL PARTHANISSA.
1.
Parthanissa's beauty blooming.
All my ravish'd mind inspires:
Smiling features, eyes confusing
Melt my heart with amorous [ ]
. . . [5 verses]
Tripping artful, easy moving,
Sweep the surface of the green.
Take a heart so tender, loving,
Ever-beauteous little Queen.
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