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Cumnor Hall
William Julius MickleSir Martyn
William Julius MickleFamous William Julius Mickle Quotes
“When nature's happiest touch could add no more,
Heaven lent an angel's beauty to her face.”
Mary, Queen of Scots: an Elegy (1770)
Stanzas 3–7
Cumnor Hall (1784)
Sir Martyn (1777), Canto I, stanza 1
William Julius Mickle Quotes
“His very foot has music in't
As he comes up the stairs”
St. 5
The Mariner's Wife (1769)
Context: Sae true's his words, sae smooth's his speech,
His breath like caller air,
His very foot has music in't
As he comes up the stairs:
And will I see his face again!
And will I hear him speak!
Pollio: an Elegy (written 1762; published 1765)
Introduction (p. cli)
The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem (1776)
Paraphrase of the 68th Psalm
Stanza 26, quoted in Walter Scott's Kenilworth, Ch. 41.
Cumnor Hall (1784)
Book I, lines 417–430 (pp. 23–24)
The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem (1776)
Stanza 1, quoted in Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821), Ch. 6. Compare: "Jove, thou regent of the skies", Alexander Pope, The Odyssey, book ii, line 42; "Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night", John Gay, Trivia, book iii; "And hail their queen, fair regent of the night", Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden, part i, canto ii, line 90.
Cumnor Hall (1784)
“None but a poet can translate a poet.”
Introduction (p. cl)
The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem (1776)