Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh
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page 78 of 173 (45%)
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Her wit descends on foes and friends Like famed Niagara's Fall; And travellers gaze in wild amaze, And listen, one and all. 4. Her judgment sound, thick, black, profound, Like transatlantic groves, Dispenses aid, and friendly shade To all that in it roves. 5. If thus her mind to be defined America exhausts, And all that's grand in that great land In similes it costs-- 6. Oh how can I her person try To image and portray? How paint the face, the form how trace In which those virtues lay? 7. Another world must be unfurled, |
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