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Oh had thy Muse not come an age too soon , But seen great Nassau on the British throne ! How had his triumphs glitter'd in thy page , And warm'd thee to a more exalted rage ! What scenes of death and horror had we view'd , And how had ...
Oh had thy Muse not come an age too soon , But seen great Nassau on the British throne ! How had his triumphs glitter'd in thy page , And warm'd thee to a more exalted rage ! What scenes of death and horror had we view'd , And how had ...
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Translations should throughout the work be sown , And Homer's godlike Muse be made our own ; 30 Horace in useful numbers should be sung , And Virgil's thoughts adorn the British tongue ; Let Ovid tell Corinna's hard disdain , And at her ...
Translations should throughout the work be sown , And Homer's godlike Muse be made our own ; 30 Horace in useful numbers should be sung , And Virgil's thoughts adorn the British tongue ; Let Ovid tell Corinna's hard disdain , And at her ...
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But if the Muse , too cruel in her mirth , 330 With harsh reflections wounds the man of worth ; If wantonly she deviates from her plan , And quits the actor to expose the man ; Asham'd , she marks that passage with a blot , And hates ...
But if the Muse , too cruel in her mirth , 330 With harsh reflections wounds the man of worth ; If wantonly she deviates from her plan , And quits the actor to expose the man ; Asham'd , she marks that passage with a blot , And hates ...
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Contents
Preface PAGE 111 | 1 |
If wine and music | 7 |
Alma or The Progress of The Mind Canto I | 15 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century |
| Editor | Cecil Albert Moore |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 20 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 942 pages |
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