...such a confession — in words which thrill me to the soul as often as they recur to my memory : ' O gracious God ! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of Poesy I Made prostitute and profligate the Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use, Whose harmony was...

...*) Ф1е8 betteift bte 1686 crfdjienene Obe: To the pious memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew: 0 gracions God! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy! Made prostitute and profligate the mase Debased to each obscene and impioos ose, Whose harmony was first ordained above For tongnes of...

...Preface to Dryden's Fables. In his ode to the Memory of Mrs. Killigrew there arc the following lines : O Gracious God ! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy ! Hade prostitute and profligate the Muse, Debased to oach obscene and impious use. * * • • •...

...Preface to Dry den's Fables. In his ode to the Memory of Mrs. KiUigrew there are the following lines : O Gracious God ! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of pony I Made prostitute and profligate the Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use. » • •...

...on .1/nn, Kp. ii. Line 217. Since heaven's eternal year is thine. Elegy on Mrs. Killegrew. Line 15. O gracious God ! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy ? Lint 5G. Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.1 Line 70. He was exhaled ; his great Creator...

...a lewd writer but a chaste companion. Dryden's own couplet will forcibly apply to himself : — " 0 gracious God ! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy I " His " Essay on Dramatic Poesy," according to Dr. Johnson, entitled him to be considered the father...

...out in the following fine passage in his ' Ode to the memory of Mrs. Killigrew : ' ' O gracious God I How far have we Profaned Thy heavenly gift of poesy ; Made prostitute and profligate the muse, , In the preface to his fables he thus writes : " I am sensible, as I ought to be, of the scandal I...

...— The Spanish Friar. I have a soul, that like an ample shield Can take in all. — Don Sebastian. O gracious God ! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy ! — Elegy on Mrs. Killigrew. For art may err, but Nature cannot miss. — The Cock and the Fox. The...

...— The Spanish Friar. I have a soul, that like an ample shield Can take in all. —Don Sebastian. O gracious God ! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy! —Elegy on Mrs. Killigreiv. For art may err, but Nature cannot miss. The sweet civilities of life....

...In the course of it he makes honest bewailment, into which it would seem his whole heart entered : " O gracious God ! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly...gift of. Poesy ? Made prostitute and profligate the mnse, Debased to each obscene and impious nse, Whose harmony was first ordained above For tongues of...