Eighteenth-Century Audio

Source: Romantic Circles Text.

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The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects
with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and
adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers,
mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their
enlarged & numerous senses could percieve.
And particularly they studied the genius of each
city & country. placing it under its mental deity.
Till a system was formed, which some took ad-
vantage of & enslav’d the vulgar by attempting to
realize or abstract the mental deities from their
objects; thus began Priesthood.
Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales.
And at length they pronouncd that the Gods
had orderd such things.
Thus men forgot that All deities reside
in the human breast.

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Forbear, bold youth; all ’s heaven here,
And what you do aver
To others courtship may appear,
‘Tis sacrilege to her.
She is a public deity;
And were ‘t not very odd
She should dispose herself to be
A petty household god?

First make the sun in private shine
And bid the world adieu,
That so he may his beams confine
In compliment to you:
But if of that you do despair,
Think how you did amiss
To strive to fix her beams which are
More bright and large than his.

Source: UMW. Philips, “To One Persuading a Lady to Marriage”

Forbear, bold youth; all ’s heaven here,
And what you do aver
To others courtship may appear,
‘Tis sacrilege to her.
She is a public deity;
And were ‘t not very odd
She should dispose herself to be
A petty household god?

First make the sun in private shine
And bid the world adieu,
That so he may his beams confine
In compliment to you:
But if of that you do despair,
Think how you did amiss
To strive to fix her beams which are
More bright and large than his.

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Forbear, bold youth; all ’s heaven here,
And what you do aver
To others courtship may appear,
‘Tis sacrilege to her.
She is a public deity;
And were ‘t not very odd
She should dispose herself to be
A petty household god?

First make the sun in private shine
And bid the world adieu,
That so he may his beams confine
In compliment to you:
But if of that you do despair,
Think how you did amiss
To strive to fix her beams which are
More bright and large than his.

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Source: UMW. Download link 

Forbear, bold youth; all ’s heaven here,
And what you do aver
To others courtship may appear,
‘Tis sacrilege to her.
She is a public deity;
And were ‘t not very odd
She should dispose herself to be
A petty household god?

First make the sun in private shine
And bid the world adieu,
That so he may his beams confine
In compliment to you:
But if of that you do despair,
Think how you did amiss
To strive to fix her beams which are
More bright and large than his.

Source: UMW. Download link