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Page xvii
... Muse's sport , And from the Critics fafe arriv'd in Port ; I little thought of launching forth agen , Amidft advent'rous Rovers of the Pen ; And after fo much undeferv'd fuccefs , Thus hazarding at last to make it less . Encomiums fuit ...
... Muse's sport , And from the Critics fafe arriv'd in Port ; I little thought of launching forth agen , Amidft advent'rous Rovers of the Pen ; And after fo much undeferv'd fuccefs , Thus hazarding at last to make it less . Encomiums fuit ...
Page xviii
... Muse fincere , that never Flatt'ry knew , Pays what to friendship and desert is due . Young , yet judicious ; in your verse are found Art ftrengthning Nature , Senfe improv'd by Sound . Unlike thofe Wits , whofe numbers glide along So ...
... Muse fincere , that never Flatt'ry knew , Pays what to friendship and desert is due . Young , yet judicious ; in your verse are found Art ftrengthning Nature , Senfe improv'd by Sound . Unlike thofe Wits , whofe numbers glide along So ...
Page xix
... Muse , Should wear those flow'rs her native fields produce ; And the true measure of the shepherd's wit 30 Should , like his garb , be for the Country fit : Yet muft his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common fwains be ...
... Muse , Should wear those flow'rs her native fields produce ; And the true measure of the shepherd's wit 30 Should , like his garb , be for the Country fit : Yet muft his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common fwains be ...
Page xx
... Muse did once , like thine , in plains delight ; Thine fhall , like his , foon take a higher flight ; So Larks , which firft from lowly fields arise , Mount by degrees , and reach at last the skies . 45 50 W. WYCHERLEY . TO Mr. POPE ...
... Muse did once , like thine , in plains delight ; Thine fhall , like his , foon take a higher flight ; So Larks , which firft from lowly fields arise , Mount by degrees , and reach at last the skies . 45 50 W. WYCHERLEY . TO Mr. POPE ...
Page xxvi
... Muse the envy of the Fair ? Lefs fhone the treffes Egypt's Princess wore , Which sweet Callimachus fo fung before . Here courtly trifles fet the world at odds ; Belles war with Beaus , and Whims defcend for Gods . The new Machines , in ...
... Muse the envy of the Fair ? Lefs fhone the treffes Egypt's Princess wore , Which sweet Callimachus fo fung before . Here courtly trifles fet the world at odds ; Belles war with Beaus , and Whims defcend for Gods . The new Machines , in ...
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