A Portrait.Strongintellect, perception quick and clear,Talents more prone to dazzle than to warm,Virtues which serve those talents to endear,Feelings which lend a fascinating charm;A winning countenance and glowing soul,Insinuating manners soft and mild,Genius, submitting to the proud controlOf Judgment, Reason’s best and favourite child:Nature design’d this creature to be great,ButVanitybehind the matron stole,And ere she closed the volume of his fate,Wrote her own name, and propertied the whole.
A Portrait.Strongintellect, perception quick and clear,Talents more prone to dazzle than to warm,Virtues which serve those talents to endear,Feelings which lend a fascinating charm;A winning countenance and glowing soul,Insinuating manners soft and mild,Genius, submitting to the proud controlOf Judgment, Reason’s best and favourite child:Nature design’d this creature to be great,ButVanitybehind the matron stole,And ere she closed the volume of his fate,Wrote her own name, and propertied the whole.
Strongintellect, perception quick and clear,Talents more prone to dazzle than to warm,Virtues which serve those talents to endear,Feelings which lend a fascinating charm;A winning countenance and glowing soul,Insinuating manners soft and mild,Genius, submitting to the proud controlOf Judgment, Reason’s best and favourite child:Nature design’d this creature to be great,ButVanitybehind the matron stole,And ere she closed the volume of his fate,Wrote her own name, and propertied the whole.
Strongintellect, perception quick and clear,Talents more prone to dazzle than to warm,Virtues which serve those talents to endear,Feelings which lend a fascinating charm;A winning countenance and glowing soul,Insinuating manners soft and mild,Genius, submitting to the proud controlOf Judgment, Reason’s best and favourite child:Nature design’d this creature to be great,ButVanitybehind the matron stole,And ere she closed the volume of his fate,Wrote her own name, and propertied the whole.
Strongintellect, perception quick and clear,Talents more prone to dazzle than to warm,Virtues which serve those talents to endear,Feelings which lend a fascinating charm;A winning countenance and glowing soul,Insinuating manners soft and mild,Genius, submitting to the proud controlOf Judgment, Reason’s best and favourite child:Nature design’d this creature to be great,ButVanitybehind the matron stole,And ere she closed the volume of his fate,Wrote her own name, and propertied the whole.
Strongintellect, perception quick and clear,
Talents more prone to dazzle than to warm,
Virtues which serve those talents to endear,
Feelings which lend a fascinating charm;
A winning countenance and glowing soul,
Insinuating manners soft and mild,
Genius, submitting to the proud control
Of Judgment, Reason’s best and favourite child:
Nature design’d this creature to be great,
ButVanitybehind the matron stole,
And ere she closed the volume of his fate,
Wrote her own name, and propertied the whole.