Excerpt from The Lady's Poetical Magazine, or Beauties of British Poetry, Vol. 1 Such as, to human fancy, mull improve The namelefs raptures of the blefs'd above Where'is the wretch fo hardy to deny, But female (kill with boalted man's may vie! The facred art of Poetry, we owe To that blefs'd fonteo of chiefelt blifs below, The fond affection which can live, alone, 0 Between two hearts that love has render'd one Where Nature feems to fpeak, with meaning plain, Thy joys, proud man, were without woman vain Like thee, {he feels each paflion of the heart, Her blifs as great as thine, as great her fmart And well (he knows, with words of magick found, To check the rifing hepe, or heal the faithful wound. Then why refnfe them to an equal lharc In arts which owe their being to the fair? Say, canlt thou meanly think that foience firives To taint the female brean: where molt it thrives Yet, if a (park within your own refides, Imagine reafon ev'ry action guides; Expeet difiine'tion from the lowly crowd, And (corn to fear Your. Virtue difallow'd! Unj all it is - regard the pail with lhame; And let them henceforth (bare the road to fame.' Happy for England, were each female mind, To fcience more, and lefs to pomp inclin'd; If parents, by example, prudence taught, And from their Qyzsn the flame of virtue caught! Skill'd in each art that ferves to polilh life, Behold, in nan, a fcientifick wife-l Tho' molt entitled to the glare of dreli, No private lady can regard it lofs Yet fiill {he keeps the glorious golden mean, And always wears what belt becomes a queen Rich, tho' not tawdry; elegant, tho' neat; And all her perfon, like her mind, compleat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.