Arts & Sciences
On Seeing a Bust of Mrs Montague
From Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett (1855)
Arts & Sciences
Had this fair figure which this frame displays,
Adorn'd in Roman time the brightest days,
In every dome, in every sacred place,
Her statue would have breathed an added grace,
And on its basis would have been enroll'd,
'This is Minerva, cast in Virtue's mould.'
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Johnson, Samuel. “On Seeing a Bust of Mrs Montague.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/johnson_samuel/22/.
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