...excellence. With how much deeper feeling, might he have adopted the words of a less gifted poet — O gracious God ! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of Poesy ? Made prostitute and piofligate the Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use. Before the date of the letter just quoted,...

...excellence. With how much deeper feeling, might he have adopted the words of a less gifted poet — O gracious God ! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of Poesy ? Made prostitute and profligate tbe Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use. Before the date of the letter just quoted, he had...

...unhallowed. Milton. Far hence bu souls profane , The Sibyl cried, and from the grove abstain. Dryden. How far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy...Made prostitute and profligate the muse, Debased. /* You can banish from thence scurrility and profineness, and restrain the licentious insolence of...

...street, and Elliston got peal on peal of applause, and the performance proceeded. CHAPTER XIX. " Oh, gracious God ! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy 1 Made prostitute and profligate the muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use : Whose harmony...

...beauteous frame she left behind ! Return to fill or mend the choir of thy celestial kind. * * » » О gracious God ! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy Î Made prostitute and profligate tne Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use, Whose harmony...

...Than was the beauteous frame she left behind. Return to fill or mend the choir of thy celestial kind. O gracious God! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy ? Made prostitute find profligate the Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use, Whose harmony was first ordahvd...

...these lines, the overflowing, apparently, of a conscience inflamed against the sin they decry: — " O gracious God ! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesie — Made prostitute and profligate the Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use ! O wretehed...

...was the beauteous frame she left behind. Return to fill or mend the choir of thy celestial kind. 0 gracious God! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy 1 Made prostitute and profligate the Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use, Whose harmony was...

...For all thy blest fraternity of love Solemnized there thy birth, and kept thy holyday above. * Iv. offence, I Made prostitute and profligate the Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use, Whose harmony was...

...poetlaureate, and sacrificed purity of language to please a corrupt court. In his own language we can say, " O gracious God ! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy?" These eminent poets were thus shorn of their fair locks and compelled to grind in the prison-house...