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    BlueStocking Revels

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    CantoIII.—The Supper

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    Canto Ii.—The Presentations And Bali,.

    Bearing smack off its legs with They spun to the supper-room , Then quoth Madame _tTArblay , ' Well—this beats myfather himself , Doctor Burney . them giddy three score , clean through the door _, panting much from her journey ,

    Bluestocking Revels

    BlueStocking Revels

    Cantoiii.—The Supper

    CantoIII . —The Supper

    Cantoiii.—The Supper

    You remember those supper-room walls , made Which beat whatsoever for dead paramours The lords of the east in white temples have done , Where in emeralds and rubies fond epitaphs run _P Well , —a gallery lurk'd sweetly behind them ; and there We spectators , scarcely knowing what took us , or where , Got somehow , as soon as the guests had down sat 'em , And found ourselves gazing most snugly down at 'em . of flowers ,

    Now while thus as they sat before supper , to rest ' em , Fresh airs through the rooms came increasing , and blest ' em ;—So sweet , all grew silent , exchanging rapt looks ; And the silence ran thick with a bubbling- of brooks . —

    Not long : —for commingling , With the stir of the foliage , and swell of the breeze , A concert arose , —so delicious , so new So earnest , so fond , so appealing to you , The notes seem'd to bathe in the tears which they by finest degrees , drew

    Then there issued ( get To show you the strain , for he took it away ) A world-heavy gust , like all organs in one , Or as though had swept Or the face of some god Who comes like a terror , And leaves us secure in — Phoebus however , with host-Jike civility , — Tried them no farther with godhead so grave : _Fo his sprites , on the sudden , blithe orders he gave , _Ind quoting the line about " lips being fed , " Which applied not alone to one heaven , he said , _? or ambrosia and nectar sustain _ed _Phere rose , veil'd in mist , to soft Vincent Novello _, some day , earthward the roar of the sun , with his thunder-loud tresses , stays gently , and blesses , the strength of humility . the realms upper ) music , a supper _.

    ! 5 ) Alluding to the accounts of jul emperors for his mistress , described , with jewellery . the mausoleum , in particular , built the walls of which were of marble . by one of the flowered , as

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/46/