"The sons of Rome ne'er felt the soft control / Of milky kindness stealing o'er the soul, / Nor did their nerves to pleasure's touch awake / Of gentler thoughts the mild impression take;"
The Progress of Refinement. A Poem. In Three Parts [from Poems on Various Subjects]
Only 1 entry in the ESTC (1787).<br>
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See <u>Poems on Various Subjects. By Henry James Pye</u>, 2 vols. (London: John Stockdale, 1787). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112999598&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qhg1AAAAMAAJ">Link to vol. ii in Google Books</a>&gt;