The Bas Bleu (1786) [ People / Practices ]
… quadrature! See VESEY's plastic genius make A Circle every figure take; Nay, shapes and forms, which would defy All science of Geometry; Isoceles, and Parallel, Names, hard to speak, and hard to spell! Th' enchantress wav'd her wand, and … destination. Here sober Duchesses are seen, Chaste Wits, and Critics void of spleen;. Physicians, fraught with real science, And Whigs and Tories in alliance; Poets, fulfilling Christian duties, Just Lawyers, reasonable Beauties; Bishops … heav'nly fair, Thou bliss of life, and balm of care, Still may thy gentle reign extend, And taste with wit and science blend! Soft polisher of rugged man, Refiner of the social plan; For thee, best solace of his toil, The sage …
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