A letter to Henry Cline, on imperfect developments of the faculties, mental and moral, as well as constitutional and organic, and on the treatment of impediments of speech.
- John Thelwall
- Date:
- 1810
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A letter to Henry Cline, on imperfect developments of the faculties, mental and moral, as well as constitutional and organic, and on the treatment of impediments of speech. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The little poem alluded to in these illustrations, if correctly printed, according to my system, would stand thus— ANACREONTIC. Come reach me old Anacréon’s lyre, For wintéry snows are hovéring near, And soon shall chill thé Autumnal! fire That gleams on life’s declining year. Then let me wake the rapitttrous shell, _ With cords of sweet remembérance strung ; While grateful Age delights to tell Of joys that glow’d when life was young. And, lest the languid pulse forgo The throb that Fancy’s flight inspires, Anacréon’s flowing cup bestow, And urge with wine the waning fires, { But temper me the Teian bow] ! And chasten me the Teian shell ! The visions that in memory roll - Are such as Nature’s bosom swell. Yes, Nature !—thine the votive string, To no polluted ear addrest ; That of no blooming boys can sing, But boys that hang on Beauty’s breast.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33089449_0187.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
