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The wood-nymphs hail my airs and temper'd shade, With ditties soft and lightly sportive dance, On river margin of some bow'ry glade, And strew their fresh buds as my steps advance: But, swift I pass, and distant regions trace, For moon-beams silver all the eastern cloud, And Day's last crimson vestige fades apace; Down the steep west I fly from Midnight's shroud.
Thoughts, suggestions, aspirations, pictures, Cities and farms by day and night book of peace and war, Of platitudes and of the commonplace. In it each claim, ideal, line, by all lines, claims, ideals, temper'd; Each right and wish by other wishes, rights. A group of little children with their ways and chatter flow in, Like welcome rippling water o'er my heated nerves and flesh.
Eliza Haywood assures us, in Idalia, that her object in writing is that "the Warmth and Vigour of Youth may be temper'd by a due Consideration"; yet the moralist must complain that she goes a strange way about it.
"I forewarn thee, shun His deadly arrow; neither vainly hope To be invulnerable in those bright arms, Though temper'd heavenly; for that fatal dint, Save Him who reigns above, none can resist."
What one misfortune or disaster in the book of embryotic evils, that could unmechanize thy frame, or entangle thy filaments! which has not fallen upon thy head, or ever thou camest into the world what evils in thy passage into it! what evils since! produced into being, in the decline of thy father's days when the powers of his imagination and of his body were waxing feeble when radical heat and radical moisture, the elements which should have temper'd thine, were drying up; and nothing left to found thy stamina in, but negations 'tis pitiful brother Toby, at the best, and called out for all the little helps that care and attention on both sides could give it.
And you may easily satisfie your self Pyro: of the differing hardness and toughness, which is ascribed to Steel temper'd at different Colours, if you break but some slender wires of Steel so temper'd, and observe how they differ in brittleness, and if with a file you also make tryal of their various degrees of hardness.
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