And grew in Favour—an improving Child.
after l. 668:
Figures that Fancy or the Painter drew,
Profane and sacred, mingled in his View.
variant of ll. 671–682:
The Prophet sitting in the Lions’ Den,
The Mountain Loadstone, and the marble Men—
Whatever yet to dreaming Man appear’d,
And all that Fancy ever form’d or fear’d,
And all that Reading could supply, and all