English Poets of the Eighteenth Century

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ENGLISH POETS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY JOHN POMFEET THE CHOICE If Heaven the grateful liberty would give. That I might choose my method how to live; And all those hours propitious fate should lend, In blissful ease and satisfaction spend. I. The Gentleman's Retirement Near some fair town I'd have a private seat, Built uniform, not little, nor too great: Better, if on a rising ground it stood; Fields on this side, on that a neighbouring wood. It should within no other things contain, But what are useful, necessary, plain: Methinks 'tis nauseous, and I'd ne'er endure, The needless pomp of gaudy furniture. A little garden, grateful to the eye; And a cool rivulet run murmuring by, On whose delicious banks a stately row Of shady limes, or sycamores, should grow. At th' end of which a silent study placed, Shoul