English poem
Poems on Several Occasions, Epigram
by John Hawkesworth (1715–1773)
Non gladium, at faciem sequitur victoria, nam que Plus valet armata Pallade nuda Venus.
CONQUEST follows not the sword, But the Virgin's blooming charms, Margaret naked has more power, Than Minerva clad in arms.
More by John Hawkesworth
- Inscription for the Obelisk at the Boyne
- Laudes Dargelli; or, Verses on the Dargle
- Living Characters; or, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-seven
- Ode, Unfinished
- Swanlinbar, a Poem. 1787
- The Vanity of Friendship, a Poem, Written After the Manner of Swift. 1785
- To Mr. Hayley
- To Their High Mightinesses the Inhabitants of