"Thee, Bard morose, / Churlish amid thy fancy's golden stores, / Thee will I teach, censorious as thou art, / What is not Virtue."
Remonstrance Addressed to William Cowper, Esq. In 1788, On Sarcasms Levelled at National Gratitude in The Task. [from The Poetical Works]
Text from <u>The Poetical Works of Anna Seward; with Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence.</u> ed. Walter Scott. 3 vols. (Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for John Ballantyne and Co., 1810).