Thomas Warton è stato uno scrittore, poeta, storico e critico della letteratura inglese, appartenente alla scuola cimiteriale. Fu poeta laureato dal 1785 al 1790. Wikipedia
“All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue.”
Universal Love of Pleasure, Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Let observation with extensive view/ Survey mankind, from China to Peru", Samuel Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 1.
“O! what's a table richly spread
Without a woman at its head!”
"The Progress of Discontent" (1750), line 39.
"Triumph of Isis" (1749).
Thomas Warton libro The History of English Poetry
The History of English Poetry (1774-81) vol. 1, p. 431.
“Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways
Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers.”
"Sonnet Written in a Blank Leaf of Dugdale's Monasticon" (1777), line 13.
