"Behold, thro' fancy's mirrour, what a scene / The phantom opens, ample, wide, and fair, / Each golden minute, bearing as it flies / Imaginary raptures on its wing; / Flatt'ring my fond deluded heart with dreams / Of lasting pleasure--but alas, how soon / This fairy Eden to a waste is turn'd?"
Mr. Hervey’s Contemplations on the Night, Done Into Blank Verse
At least 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1750, 1757, 1764).<br>
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Text from <u>Mr. Hervey’s Contemplations on the Night, Done Into Blank Verse, (After the Manner of Dr. Young) By T. Newcomb, M.A.</u> (London: Printed for J. Rivington and J. Fletcher, in Paternoster Row, 1757). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N4287">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;