The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 15
hom she has just given birth, who is presented to herby one of the Graces. The two other companions ofthe goddess contemplate Love and admire his beauty.A female with wings, undoubtedly one of the Hours,scatters flowers upon the infant. The delightful scenepasses in the midst of the heavens, and… … BACON. Thine is a Bacon—hapless in his choice • fJnfit to stand the civil storm of state, And through the smooth barbarity of courts. With firm but pliant virtue, forward still To urge his course—him for the studious shade Kind nature formed, deep, comprehensive, clear, Exact and elegant; in one…
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