"Let inward beauty charm the mental sight; / Let godlike Reason, beaming bright, / Chase far away each gloomy shade, / Till VIRTUE's heav'nly form display'd / Alone shall captivate my soul, / And her divinest love possess me whole!"
An Irregular Ode, To Mrs. Eliz. Carter [from Works of Epictetus]
Text from Hester Chapone, <u>Miscellanies in Prose and Verse</u>, 3rd edition (London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly ... and J. Walter, 1777). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=MBAlAAAAMAAJ">Link to 3rd edition in Google Books</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NytPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9#v=onepage&q&f=false">Link to version printed in Elizabeth Carter's translation of Epictetus, in Google Books</a>&gt;