English poem
NUMBER IX. On CHESTERFIELD
by Charles Prentiss (1774–1820)
The splendid globe, tho silvered o'er with care, The wise consider but as hollow ware.
More by Charles Prentiss
- Lines on Chatterton
- NUMBER I. On the necessary combination of genius and science in composition
- NUMBER III. On my old BOOTS
- NUMBER IV. On a certain writer, who was fond of maggotty Cheese, who frequently observed that nothing was lost
- NUMBER V. On MILTON and POPE
- NUMBER VI. On LIFE and DEATH
- NUMBER X. On PETER PINDAR
- NUMBER XII. ON THE QUESTION—WHAT IS BEAUTY. [The thoughts from Voltaire.]