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Excerpt from Ode Performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge, July 1, 1749, at the Installation of His Grace Thomas Holles Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of the University
IV. But chief (he lifts her tuneful tranfports high, Rfa'tgtiw, When to her intellectual eye The mental beauties rife in moral dignity: The facred zeal for Freedom's caufe, That fires the glowing Patriot's breaft The honeft pride, that plumes the Hero's crefr, When for his country's aid the {teel he draws Or that, the calm yet active heat, With which mild Genius warms the Sages heart, To lift fair Science to a loftier feat, Or firetch to ampler bounds the wide domain of art. Thefe, the beft blofi'oms of the virtuous mind, fiz'r Ill. She culls with tafte refin'd; From their ambrofxal bloom With bee-like {kill [he draws the rich perfume, And blends the fweets they all convey In the foft balm of her mellifiuous lay. V. Is there a clime, where all thefe beauties rife Recitatit'e.
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