Memoirs of Sir Benjamin Rudyerd; Containing His Speeches and Poems to Which Are Added the Letters of His Great-Great-Grandson Benjamin Rudyerd - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841. Excerpt: ... Then they become forsaken, and do show, Like stately abbeys ruin'd long ago. Nature but gives the model and first draught Of fair complexion, which by Art is taught To speak itself a complete form and birth; So stands a copy to the shapes on Earth. Love grants me then a reparable face, Which, whilst that colours are, can want no grace; Pygmalion's painted statue I could love, So it were warm, and soft, and could not move. BENJ. RUDYERD TO THE PRINCE AT HIS RETURN FROM SPAIN. Sir, such my fate was, that I had no store T' erect a goodly pile before my door; Nor were my flagons tir'd by being taught Their several stages up and down the vault, Upon the great bless'd day of your return, Nothing wherein at all was seen to mourn, Except it were the heavens; and well they might, Fearing our triumphs should outshine their light: So open-hearted men were, as't had been No point of faith to think excess a sin. The poor man trick'd himself with wine that day, And did not fear to make his landlord stay; The tradesman shut his shop, and did not care For the retailing of his neglected ware; For well he knew there landed on the shore A prize that him and all the isle might store. The inland liver, that could never find The east from west but by a church, nor wind In his life's compass ever yet did know, But that which to his summer fruit's a foe, Was better learn'd; and now he knew by art What fill'd your sails, and what wind fill'd his heart I that have sense of blessings cannot show, In outward things, the joy that I do owe; And thanks to Heaven for your safe return: Yet have a fire within them that do burn As bright as theirs, which never shall decay Till Fate assign to me a further day. GENEALOGY OF THE RUDYERDS OF RUDYERD, IN STAFFORDSHIRE, AND OF WE8TWOODHAY, COUNT...
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