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Show ORIGIN OF SOCIETY. CANTO III. g6 The virgin, Novelty, whose radiant trai? Soars o'er the clouds, or sinks beneath the tnain, With sweetly-nlutable seductive charms Thrills the young sense, the tender heart alarms. Then Curiosity with tracing hands And meeting lips the lines of form demands, Buoy'd on light step, o'er ocean, earth, and sky, Rolls the bright mirror of her restless -eye. 150 While in wild groups tumultuous Passions stand, And Lust and Hunger head the Motley band; Then Love and Rage succeed, and Hope and Fear; And nameless Vices close the gloomy rear~ Or young Philanthropy with voice divine Convokes the adoring Youth to Virtue's shrine; 160 of objects, hoping· to find novelty, a11d the pleasure consequent to this degree of surprise; see Additional Note VII. 3. And meeting lips, 1. 15~. Young children put small bodies into their mouths, when they are satiated with food, as well as when they are hungry, not with design to taste them, but use their lips as an tngan of touch to distinguish the shape of · them. Puppies, whose toe'3 are terminated with nails, and who do not much use their forefeet as hands, seem to have no other means of acquiring a knowledge 0f the forms of external bodies, and are therefore perpetually playing with things by taking them between their lips. aANTO III. PROGRESS OF THE lVIIND. Who with raised eye. and pointing finger leads To truths celestial, and immortal deeds. 97 lii. " As the pure language of the Sight comm~nds The clear ideas furnish'd by the hands; Beauty's fine forms attract our wondering eyes, And soft alarms the pausing heart surprise. War~ fi1om its cell the tender infant born F~els the cold chill of Life's aerial morn; Seeks with spread hands the bosoms velvet orbs ' With closing lips the milky fount absorbs; 170 And, as compress' d the dulcet streams distil ' Drinks warmth and fragrance from the Jivina rill· b ' Eyes with mute rapture every waving line, Prints with adoring kiss the Paphian shrine, And learns er~long, the perfect form confess' d, IDEAL BEAUTY fron1 its Mother's breast. Seeks ·with sjn•ectd hands, I. 169. These eight beautiful lines are copied from l\1r. Bilsborrow's Address prefixed to Zoonomia, and are translated from that work; Sect. XVI. 6. Ideal Beauty, l. 176. Sentimental Love, as distinguished from tile 0 |