Thomas Warton was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. From 1785 to 1790 he was the Poet Laureate of England. He is sometimes called Thomas Warton the younger to distinguish him from his father Thomas Warton the elder. His most famous poem remains The Pleasures of Melancholy, a representative work of the Graveyard poets. Wikipedia
“All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue.”
Universal Love of Pleasure, Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Let observation with extensive view/ Survey mankind, from China to Peru", Samuel Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 1.
“O! what's a table richly spread
Without a woman at its head!”
"The Progress of Discontent" (1750), line 39.
"Triumph of Isis" (1749).
Thomas Warton book The History of English Poetry
The History of English Poetry (1774-81) vol. 1, p. 431.
“Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways
Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers.”
"Sonnet Written in a Blank Leaf of Dugdale's Monasticon" (1777), line 13.
