Essays on Wit No. 2 by Joseph Warton;Richard Flecknoe
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And smiling Mirth kissing fair Courtesy,
By sweet Persuasion won a bloodless Victory._ _Her Lips most happy each in other's Kisses, From their so wish'd Imbracements seldom parted, Yet seem'd to blush at such their wanton Blisses; But when sweet Words their joining Sweets disparted, To the Ear a dainty Musick they imparted; Upon them fitly sate delightful Smiling, A thousand Souls with pleasing Stealth beguiling: Ah that such shews of Joys shou'd be all Joys exiling!_ _Lower two Breasts stand all their Beauties bearing, Two Breasts as smooth and soft;--but oh alas! Their smoothest Softness far exceeds comparing: More smooth and soft--but naught that ever was, Where they are first, deserves the second Place: Yet each as soft, and each as smooth as other; But when thou first try'st one, and then the other, Each softer seems than each, and each than each seems smoother._ These Lines (pretty as they are) would be unsufferable in a large and serious Work, nay, there are some People who tax them with being too extravagant even for the Poem where they stand; and in truth, their warmest Admirer can say no more than this: _Nequeo Monstrare, & Sentio tantum._ So far am I from reproaching _Waller_ with putting too much Wit in his Poems; that on the contrary, I have found too little, though he |
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