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    38 , Blue-Stocking Revels;

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    Canto II.—The Presentations and Bali,.

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    Blue-Stocking Or The Feast Of The By Lei...

    The Spirit that ' s born with us , but becomes visible Solely with those to such suppers admissible . Beauteous it was , to see each how he led His charge by the hand , with the flame on his head , She walking , he gliding . It gave her such grace ,

    As made the crowd happy to look in her face ( For never did crowd gather yet at a door so ); The plain became handsome , the handsomest more so If plain any face can be called , that has eyes Such as almost all brain with its deep look supplies : The music ceased playing , as each was presented ;

    And Silence , with sighs , ' twas so ultra-contented , Felt tears in the eyes of its rapture , to see How they _kiss'd the god ' s hand , and their eyelids kiss And then , on each entrance , there pour'd forth again Some characteristic and exquisite strain ; And thus came each charmer of verse , or of story , In a sort of sweet tempest of pleasure and glory .

    I tell not the dresses . Suffice it that Titian Had owned himself conquered at this exhibition ; So rich were the colours ! such autumn ! such May ! TiVki _* _evki-nifra onrl _iTCkCk-rm mcirl p _tlic _» m mnro ni _> lace _rroxr For spirits and years made them more or less gay ;

    And the elder in orange and russet came , queenly ; The younger in lily and rose , sprinkled greenly : The buxom , uniting both tastes , filled the doors With their shoulders and frills , a la Louis Quatorze ; Or with robes a i antique , and with crowns from their graperies Blessed were the eyes that beheld their broad draperies !

    38 , Blue-Stocking Revels;

    38 , Blue-Stocking Revels ;

    Canto Ii.—The Presentations And Bali,.

    Canto II . —The Presentations and Bali ,.

    Canto Ii.—The Presentations And Bali,.

    Now as to the names ( how much less then the natures , And writings , and beauties !) of all the dear creatures , I boast not to mention the whole of them ;—nay , I live so sequester'd , so out of the way , That perhaps I don ' t know them , —perhaps shall omit Some bud of such promise , such sweet virgin wit ,

    existing , doubtless in the medical as in all other professions , that the name of the most eminent of them , Dr South wood Smith , is here intended . ( 5 ) It hardly need be observed , that the word " Genius , " here used in its mythological sense , does not , of necessity , imply that higher order of faculty , which gifts the possessors with something peculiar to them , and leaves a gap when they are gone . And as little does it imply equality of faculty . The difference of degree in this respect , among the ladies ensuing , is as great , as specification of it would be ungaJl & _Ot , AH the criticisms which follow , relate to the individuals _themselves only , and insinuate no comparison with others , whether of preference or the reverse .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 38, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/36/