On angel-wings attendant Graces move,

And hail the God of SENTIMENTAL LOVE. 180
Earth at his feet extends her flowery bed,

And bends her filver bloffoms round his head;
Dark clouds diffolve, the warring winds fubfide,
And fimiling ocean calms his toffing tide,
O'er the bright morn meridian luftres play,
And Heaven salutes him with a flood of day.

"Warm as the fun-beam, pure as driven fnows, The enamour'd GOD for young DIONE. glows; Drops the still tear, with sweet attention fighs, And woos the Goddess with adoring eyes ; 190 Marks her white neck beneath the gauze's fold, Her ivory shoulders, and her locks of gold; Drinks with mute ecstacy the tranfient glow, Which warms and tints her bofom's rifing fnow.

Earth at his fect, 1. 181.

Te, Dea, te fugiunt venti, te nubila cœli,

Adventumque tuum; tibi fuaves dædala tellus
Submittit flores; tibi rident æquora ponti;

Placatumque nitet diffufo lumine coelum. LUCRET.

With holy kiffes wanders o'er her charms,

And clafps the Beauty in Platonic arms;
Or if the dewy hands of Sleep, unbid,
O'er her blue eye-balls close the lovely lid,
Watches each nascent smile, and fleeting grace,

That plays in day-dreams o'er herblushing face; 200
Counts the fine mazes of the curls, that break
Round her fair ear, and fhade her damafk cheek;
Drinks the pure fragrance of her breath, and fips
With tendereft touch the roses of her lips ;-
O'er female hearts with chafte feduction reigns,
And binds SOCIETY in filken chains.

IV. "IF the wide eye the wavy lawns explores, The bending woodlands, or the winding fhores,

The wavy lawns, 1. 207. When the babe, foon after it is born into this cold world, is applied to its mother's bofom, its fense of perceiving warmth is first agreeably affected; next its fense of smell is delighted with the odour of her milk; then its tafte is gratified by the flavour of it; afterwards the appetites of hunger and of thirst afford pleasure by the poffeffion of their objects, and by the subsequent digestion of the aliment; and laftly,

Hills, whofe green fides with foft protuberance rife,
Or the blue concave of the vaulted fkies; 210
Or scans with nicer gaze the pearly fwell
Of spiral volutes round the twisted shell;
Or undulating sweep, whofe graceful turns
Bound the smooth furface of Etrurian urns,

the sense of touch is delighted by the foftness and fmoothness of the milky fountain, the source of fuch variety of happiness.

All these various kinds of pleasure at length become afsociated with the form of the mother's breaft; which the infant embraces with its hands, preffes with its lips, and watches with its eyes; and thus acquires more accurate ideas of the form of its mother's bofom, than of the odour and flavour or warmth, which it perceives by its other fenfes. And hence at our maturer years, when any object of vifion is prefented to us, which by its waving or spiral lines bears any fimilitude to the form of the female bofom, whether it be found in a landfcape with foft gradations of rifing and defcending surface, or in the forms of fome antique vases, or in other works of the pencil or the chifel, we feel a general glow of delight, which feems to influence all our fenses; and if the object be not too large, we experience an attraction to embrace it with our arms, and to falute it with our lips, as we did in our early infancy the bofom of our mother. And thus we find, according to the ingenious idea of Hogarth, that the waving lines of beauty were originally taken from the temple of Venus,