The Waif Woman
orset, in the church
ce of courts, t
, and judge of
ride, though san
rning, and of
ture, though s
ral, and his
who touch'd th
e had his hate
who could king a
his friendship
great forefath
and reflecte
ckhursts, othe
till, or poets
exempt him from the lot of man, or incline us much to wonder that he should die. What is meant by "judge of nature," is not easy to say. Nature is not the object of human judgment; for it is vain to judge where we cannot alter. If by nat
urge of
ected with knaves in state, though knaves is a word rather too ludicrous and light; but the mention of sanctified pride will not lead the
ft his
first bestowed on Dorset by Pope[153]
sati
ly to be avoided; and in shorter they may be indulged, because the train of the composition may naturally involve them, or the scantiness of the subject allow litt
cour
rved to be kept separate from so poor a commendation as care of his ease. I wish our poets would attend a little more accurately to the use of the word sacred, which surely should never be applied in a serious composition, but where some reference
st
peerage; they might happen to any other man whose ancestors
aph be worthy either of the