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"To the Right Honourable Lord Lyttleton. An Epistle [from Poems on Several Occasions]"
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Date: 1766
"Gen'rous bosoms, more than gems of gold, / Rich funds of morals, knowledge, sense, unfold; / Transmitting each, to each, the rising store, / For wisdom's plants, while cropping, flourish more, A magic circle! whose enchanted round, / Admits no fiend to tread the hallow'd ground."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1766
"In judgment's sunshine fancy's flow'rets bloom, / And innocence exalts their fresh perfume: / No weeds of envy choke the fertile soil"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
