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develop from incipiency to maturity
- 1772, Nathaniel Evans, Poems on Several Occasions, page 106:
- How did we hope — alas! the hope how vain!
- To hear thy future more enripen’d ſtrain;
- When fancy’s fire with judgement had combin’d
- To guide each effort of th’ enraptur’d mind.
- Yet are thoſe youthful glowing lays of thine
- The emanations of a ſoul divine;
- Who heard thee ſing but felt ſweet muſic’s dart
- In thrilling tranſports pierce his captiv’d heart?
- Whether ſoft melting airs attun’d thy ſong,
- Or pleas’d to pour the thund’ring verſe along,
- Still nobly great, true offspring of the Nine,
- Alas! how blaſted in thy glorious prime!
- So when firſt opes the eye-lids of the morn,
- A radiant purple does the heav’ns adorn,
- Freſh ſmiling glory ſtreaks the ſkies around,
- And gaily ſilvers each enamel’d mound,
- Till ſome black ſtorm o’erclouds the æther fair,
- And all its beauties vaniſh into air.
- 1785, The humming bird: a collection of the most celebrated English and Scots songs, A collection of songs for the ladies, song 330:
- On his face the vernal roſe,
- Blended with the lilly glows;
- His locks are as the raven black,
- In ringlets woven down his back.
- His eyes with milder beauties beam,
- Than billing doves beſide the ſtream;
- His youthful cheeks are beds of flow’rs
- Enripen’d by refreſhing ſhow’rs.
- His lips are of the roſe’s hue,
- Still dropping with a fragrant dew;
- Tall as the cedar he appears,
- And as erect his form he bears.
- 1810, Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, the poëms of E. Moore, Fable 2, The Panther, the Horse, and other Beasts, page 210:
- Trust me, my dear, with greater ease
- Your taste for flatt’ry I could please,
- And similics in each dull line,
- Like glow-worms in the dark, should shine.
- What if I say your lips disclose
- The freshness of the op’ning rose?
- Or that your cheeks are beds of flow’rs,
- Enripen’d by refreshing show’rs?
- Yet certain as these flow’rs fade,
- Time every beauty will invade.
- The butterfly, of various hue,
- More than the flow’r resembles you;
- Fair, fluttering, fickle, busy thing,
- To pleasure ever on the wing,
- Gayly coquetting for an hour,
- To die, and ne’er be thought of more.