SONNET [18] XVIII. To the Earl of Egremont. Charlotte Smith (née Turner) Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. N22357 Smith, Charlotte Turner, 1749-1806. Elegiac sonnets, and other poems. By Charlotte Smith. The first Worcester edition, from the sixth London edition, with additions. Printed at Worcester [Mass.] by Isaiah Thomas, sold by him in Worcester, and by said Thomas and Andrews in Boston 1795 p. 38. xix,[2],22-126,[2]p.,[5] leaves of plates: ill.; 15 cm. (12mo)

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SONNET [ 18 ] XVIII . To the Earl of Egremont . WYNDHAM ! 'tis not thy blood , tho' pure it runs Thro' a long line of glorious ancestry , Percys and Seymours , Britain's boasted sons , Who trust the honors of their race to thee : 'Tis not thy splendid domes , where science loves To touch the canvas , and the bust to raise ; Thy rich domains , fair fields and spreading groves ; 'Tis not all these the Muse delights to praise ! In birth , and wealth and honors , great thou art ! But nobler , in thy independent mind ; And in that liberal hand and feeling heart Giv'n thee by Heav'n — a blessing to mankind ! Unworthy oft may titled fortune be ; A soul like thine — is true Nobility !