Note 40 — DIALOGUE II. ON RETIREMENT.
Reading edition
Shakespear. As you like it. Act II. S. 1.—There is a quaintness in these lines of the great poet, which however are not unlike some of Mr. Cowley’s addressed to J. Evelyne, Esq.
Where does the wisdom and the pow’r divine, In a more bright and sweet reflexion shine; Where do we finer strokes and colours see Of the Creator’s real poetry; Than when we with attention look Upon the third day’s volume of the book? If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like Moses, should espy, Ev’n in a Bush, the radiant Deity.