to go out of doors instead and seek what can be learned "in yonder grove": If Religion claims thy care, Religion, fled from books, is there. For first from Nature's works we drew Our knowledge and our virtue too. It is in performances like these that we find the value of the transitional poets of the second half of the 18th century as they abandon Augustan models for their own resources. References External links British poets 18th-century English poets 1735 births 1779 deaths People from Kirkby Stephen 18th-century English Anglican priests English male poets 18th-century English male writers 18th-century British translators