Newly identified quotes and epigraphs from The Romance of the Forest

Below are identification of quotes which, at least in the latest Oxford University Press edition of the Romance of the Forest, were still unidentified. 

the pages refer to the edition of RF in The Folio Society, 1987

Vol I, Chapter II, p27
[…] the captivations of her beauty were heightened by the grace and simplicity of her manners, and confirmed by the intrinsic value of a heart
"That might be shrin'd in crystal, And have all its movements scann'd."

George Keate (1729-1797)
“The Monument in Arcadia : a dramatic poem”, Act II, 1773
"[…] for she wears a Heart
So pure, so spotless, that it might be shrin’d
In Crystal, and have all its movements scanne’d!"


Vol II, Chapter VI, p184, epigraph
"Nor sea, nor shade, nor shield, nor rock, nor cave,
Nor silent desarts, nor the sullen grave,
Where flame-ey'd Fury means to frown——-can save."

Francis Quarles (1592 – 1644)
“Emblems”, Book III, Emblem XII, 1635
"Nor sea, nor shade, nor shield, nor rock, nor cave,
Nor silent deserts, nor the sullen grave,
What* flame-ey'd fury means to smite, can save."

*in some editions, Where


Vol III, Chapter III, p244
 "Deep struck with awe, they mark'd the dome o'erthrown,
Where once the beauty bloom'd, the warrior shone:
They saw the castle's mould'ring towers decay'd,
The loose stone tott'ring o'er the trembling shade."

John Ogilvie (1733–1813)
“The Day of Judgment. A poem, in two books.” 1758, Lines 93-96 
“Struck deep with woe, we mark’d the domes o’erthrown,
Where once the beauty bloom’d, the warrior shone;
We saw Palmyra’s mould’ring tow’rs decay’d,
The loose wall tott’ring o’er the trembling shade !”


Vol III, Chapter III, P241
 "Soothing each gust of passion into peace,
All but the swellings of the soften'd heart,
That waken, not disturb, the tranquil mind!"

The Oxford University Press Edition refers correctly to James Thomson, The seasons, ‘Spring’, lines 464-6 (slightly altered).
 Original:
Soothe every gust of passion into peace;
All but the swellings óf the soften'd heart,
That waken, not disturb, the tranquil mind.”

But the slight alteration in RF is not from the hand of Ann Radcliffe, Gilpin (1724-1804) did it in 1786 in:
 Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772, on Several Parts of England: Particularly the Mountains, and Lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland.

It reminds me of the Ann Radcliffe quote
“Beauty sleeping in the lap of horror”, in Mysteries of Udolpho, Volume I, Chapter V

Interestingly, Charles Avison seems to have coined the sentence “Beauty lying in the lap of horror” to describe Lake Windermere (?), which was considered by Gilpin as an admirable characterisation.


It has been used many times since by others with “sleeping” instead of “lying”, but I do not know if Ann was the first to do so. Still wondering... 

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