"Ned cou'd not well digest this Change, / Forc'd in the World at large to range; / With Babel's Monarch turn'd to grass, / Wou'd it not break an Heart of Brass?"
The Happy Disappointment: A Tale. [from Occasional Poems]
At least 5 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1727, 1766, 1779, 1780, 1790, 1795).<br>
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Text from William Somervile, <u>Occasional Poems, Translations, Fables, Tales, &c.</u> (London: Bernard Lintot, 1727). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T139205">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=TrArAQAAMAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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Found also in Johnson's <u>Works of the English Poets</u> (1779-1780, 1790) and Somervile's <u>Poetical Works</u> (1766, 1780). 