‘Embrowned with native bronze, lo! Henley stands,

Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands.’

Act III. 199, et seq.

‘Oh worthy thou of Aegypt’s wise abodes,

A decent priest, where monkeys were the gods!’

III. 207–8.

‘And tell us whence the stars; why some are fix’d,

And planetary some.’

Cowper, The Task, Book III. 158.

‘Religion, if in heavenly truths attired,