"Thy piercing thought / Unaided saw each movement of the mind, / As skilful artists view the small machine, / The secret springs and nice dependencies, / And to thy mimic scenes, by fancy wrought / To such a wond'rous shape, th'impassion'd breast / In floods of grief, or peals of laughter bow'd, / Obedient to the wonder-working strain, / Like the tun'd string responsive to the touch, / Or to the wizard's charm, the passive storm."
Edge-Hill, A Poem, in Four Books [from Poems, Moral and Descriptive]
Only 1 entry in ECCO and ESTC (1784).<br>
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