“O’erstock’d mankind enjoy but half her stores;
“In distant wilds, by human eyes unseen,
“She rears her flow’rs, and spreads her velvet green:
“Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace,
“And waste their music on the savage race.”
Universal Passion, Sat. V.
15. Mr. Edwards (author of the Canons of Criticism), who, though an old bachelor, like Mr. Gray, was far more attentive to the fair sex, endeavoured to supply what he thought a defect in this Poem, by introducing after this the two following stanzas:
Some lovely fair, whose unaffected charms
Shone with attraction to herself unknown;
Whose beauty might have blest a monarch’s arms,