Thyself Art skilful to associate verse with airs Harmonious, and to give the human voice A thousand modulations.-- Such distribution of himself to us Was Phoebus' choice; _thou_ hast thy gift, and I Mine also; and between us we receive, Father and Son, the whole inspiring God! AD PATREM. [146] There is extant a prose letter from Milton to Holstentius, the librarian of the Vatican, in which he accounts as one of his greatest pleasures at Rome, that of having known and heard Leonora. [147] A Miss Davies. "The father (says Hayley) seems to have been a convert to Milton's arguments; but the lady had scruples. She possessed (according to Philips) both wit and beauty. A novelist could hardly imagine circumstances more singularly distressing to sensibility than the situation of the poet, if, as we may reasonably conjecture, he was deeply enamoured of this lady; if her father was inclined to accept him as a son-in-law, and the object of his love had no inclination to reject his suit, but what arose from a dread of his being indissolubly mated to another."--_Life of Milton_, p. 90. [148] --I, dark in light, exposed To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors or without, still as a fool In power of others, never in my own, &c. SAMSON AGONISTES. [149] Todd's Life of Milton--See also Milton's Will, which has been lately recovered, and published by Warton. [150] Aubrey's Letters. END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. LONDON: PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.