Poems on Various Subjects with some Essays in Prose, Letters to Correspondents, &c. and A Treatise on Health. By Samuel Bowden |
AN EPITAPH ON Richard Middleton, Esq; A. M.
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AN EPITAPH ON Richard Middleton, Esq; A. M.
Late of Queen's-College, and Christ-Church, Oxford.
(By the SAME.)
With solid sense, in learnings robe array'd,
Fancy's gay light, thro' reason's sober shade;
Unweary'd industry with genius joyn'd,
And fervent zeal by charity refin'd;
Justice and truth, with christian awe profound,
And stedfast faith with righteous actions crown'd.
Fancy's gay light, thro' reason's sober shade;
Unweary'd industry with genius joyn'd,
And fervent zeal by charity refin'd;
Justice and truth, with christian awe profound,
And stedfast faith with righteous actions crown'd.
With these, in manners pleasingly sedate,
He sought perfection in an earthly state.
Virtue and wisdom large improvement gain'd,
Sin seem'd subdu'd, but frailty still remain'd;
Till pitying heav'n remov'd this last restraint,
Destroy'd the mortal, and receiv'd the saint.
He sought perfection in an earthly state.
Virtue and wisdom large improvement gain'd,
Sin seem'd subdu'd, but frailty still remain'd;
Till pitying heav'n remov'd this last restraint,
Destroy'd the mortal, and receiv'd the saint.
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