University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
An Evening Contemplation in a College

Being a Parody on the Elegy in A Country Church-Yard. By another Gentleman of Cambridge [i.e. John Duncombe]
Duncombe, John (1729-1786)

expand section
[section]

collapse section Collapse All | Expand All expand section
previous section An Evening Contemplation in a College
next section
8

But Science now has fill'd their vacant mind
With Rome's rich spoils and Truth's exalted views;
Fir'd them with transports of a nobler kind,
And bade them slight all females—but the Muse.
previous section An Evening Contemplation in a College
next section