This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1782 Excerpt: ...poets only can create; Ami fuch are you, their privilege you claim g To ihow your wonders hut conceal your name. Like fome eftablifh'd king, without control-You take a gen'ral progress thro' the foul, Survey each part, examine ev'ry fide, Where file's fecure and where unfortify'd, 10 In faithful lines her hiftory ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1782 Excerpt: ...poets only can create; Ami fuch are you, their privilege you claim g To ihow your wonders hut conceal your name. Like fome eftablifh'd king, without control-You take a gen'ral progress thro' the foul, Survey each part, examine ev'ry fide, Where file's fecure and where unfortify'd, 10 In faithful lines her hiftory declare, And trace the caufes of her civil war: Your pen no partial prejudices fway, But truth decides and virtue wins the day. Thro' what gay fields and fiow'ry fcenes we paft Where fancy fpsrts and fiiilion leads the chafe! z6 Where life, as thro her various acts fhe tends, Like other comedies in marriage ends. What Mufe but your's fo juitly could difplay Th' embattled pafiions maifhall'd in array, 30 Bid the rang'd appetites in order move, Give lull a figure and a fhape to love, To ail y notions folid forms difpenfe, And make our thoughts the images of fenfe, Difcover all the rational machine, 1$ Andmowthemovements, fprings, andwheels, within? But Hymen waveshistorch, alldifcords ceafe, All parly, drop their arms, and fue for peace; Soon as the fignal flames they quit the fight, For all at firlt but differ'd to unite: 30 From ev'ry part the lines in order move, And fwectly centre in the point ef love. Let blockheads to the musty fchools repair, And poach for morals and the paflions there, Where Virtue like a dwarf in giant's arms, 35 Cumber'd with words arid manacled in terms, Serves to amufe the philofophick fool By method dry and regularly dull. Who fees thy lines fo visibly exprefs The foul herfelf in fuch a pleasing drefs 40 May from thy labours be convine'd and taught How Spenfer would have fung and Plato thought. TO MR. POPE, ON HIS TRANSLATION OF UOMER'S ILIAD. 'tis true what fam'd Pythagoras maintain'd, That fouls departed in new bodies re.
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