Louisa : a poetical novel, in four epistles / by Miss Seward.

  • Seward, Anna, 1742-1809
Date:
1784
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Credit: Louisa : a poetical novel, in four epistles / by Miss Seward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ For me, thy needlefs apprehenfion fpare ! “ My peace, my fame, abjure Eugenio’s care! “ And in my bofom female Pride fhall prove “'An happier guard, than my weak, wafted love ! “ Farewell Infenlible I—enjoy thy grief ! “ Seek, in inglorious fhades, and ftghs, relief “ For the hard doom relentlefs Fate ordain’d, “ Thy fplendid fortunes to EM IRA's chain’d !— “ She goes to join, too great of Soul to mourn, “The Circles fhe was deftin’d to adorn, “ Till, feizing on her heart with demon-hold, “ Paflion infajie that Deftiny controul’d!” ‘ And thus the Fair, that one fhort minute faw ‘ Obey the facred force of Nature’s law -y ‘ Now to its didlates more obdurate grown, O f ‘ To Danger’s paths with double zeft is flown. ‘ Then to the famenefs of the Opera Throng, ‘ Where vocal tricks fuftain th’ infipid fong.; ‘ Where, round the Dancer, echoing plaudits found, ‘ At each indecent and diftorted bound. ‘ Each