fonnet

Grefcimbeni quotes four lines, which are, nearly the fame with a part of the fonnet itfelf, as it ftill exifts; and which is fo poor a compofition, as far as I can decypher it, that it weighs with me more than Grefcimbeni's authority, or Rymer's arguments, to beUeve it

A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England: With Lists of Their Works 1796

Among the fmaller poem?, the folfowing 'fonnet has merit; chough we are not fu6dently dazzled by its title to fly that it ia' witkout defeds:

The Monthly Review 1791

That care-defying fonnet, which implies His debts difcharg'd, and he of half a crown In full pofTeflion, uncontelled right And property I Yet ah! whoe'er this wight Admiring view, if fuch there be, diilruft The vain pretence; the fmiles that harbour grief As lurks the ferpent deep in flowers unwreath'd. porewarn'd, 'be frugal; or with prudent rage Thy pen demolifli; chufe the truftier flail.

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

That care-defying fonnet, which implies His debts difcharg'd, and he of half a crown In full pofTeffion, uncontefted right And property 1 Yet ah! whoe'er this wight Admiring view, if fuch there be, diftruft The vain pretence; the fmilcs that harbour grief As lurks the ferpent deep in flowers unwreath'd. porewarn'd, be frugal; or with prudent rage Thy pen demolifh; chufe the truflier flail.

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790