West, Gilbert (1703-1756)

Education, A Poem: In Two Cantos. Written in Imitation of the Style and Manner of Spenser's Fairy Queen.

London

Printed for R. Dodsley and sold by M. Cooper

1751

Religion shall "Shall purge their Minds from all impure Allays / Of sordid Selfishness and brutal Sense,"

  Then shall my youthful Sons, to Wisdom led
  By fair Example and ingenuous Praise,
  With willing Feet the Paths of Duty tread;
  Through the World's intricate or rugged Ways
  Conducted by Religion's sacred Rays;
  Whose Soul-invigorating Influence
  Shall purge their Minds from all impure Allays
  Of sordid Selfishness and brutal Sense,
And swell th' ennobled Heart with blest Benevolence.

Mineral::Alloy

Searching "mind" and "allay" ("alloy") in HDIS (Poetry)

See printings in ECCO and ESTC (1751, 1755, 1758, 1763, 1765, 1766, 1770, 1775, 1782, 1795). Collected in Dodsley, Bell, Works of the English Poets, Knox, and Anderson's British Poets. Reprints listed at Spenser and the Tradition.

See Education, a Poem: in Two Cantos. Written in Imitation of the Style and Manner of Spenser’s Fairy Queen. By Gilbert West, Esq. (London: Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-Noster-Row, 1751). <Link to ECCO>

Text from A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. by Several Hands (London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763).

04/14/2005