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... Thou should'st not fail of numbers worthy thine ; The brightest Ancients might at once agree , To fing within my lays , and fing of thee . Horace himself wou'd own thou doft excell In candid arts to play the Critic well . Ovid himself ...
... Thou should'st not fail of numbers worthy thine ; The brightest Ancients might at once agree , To fing within my lays , and fing of thee . Horace himself wou'd own thou doft excell In candid arts to play the Critic well . Ovid himself ...
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... thou , a Daphnis he ; While fome old Damon , o'er the vulgar wife , Thinks he deferves , and thou deferv'ft the Prize . Rapt with the thought , my fancy feeks the plains , And turns me fhepherd while I hear the strains . Indulgent nurse ...
... thou , a Daphnis he ; While fome old Damon , o'er the vulgar wife , Thinks he deferves , and thou deferv'ft the Prize . Rapt with the thought , my fancy feeks the plains , And turns me fhepherd while I hear the strains . Indulgent nurse ...
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... thou chufe , What laurell'd Arch for thy triumphant Muse ? Tho ' each great Ancient court thee to his fhrine , Tho ' ev'ry Laurel thro the dome be thine ; ( From the proud Epic , down to those that shade The gentler brow of the foft ...
... thou chufe , What laurell'd Arch for thy triumphant Muse ? Tho ' each great Ancient court thee to his fhrine , Tho ' ev'ry Laurel thro the dome be thine ; ( From the proud Epic , down to those that shade The gentler brow of the foft ...
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... thou canst not cure ! Ye fhady beeches , and ye cooling streams , Defence from Phoebus , not from Cupid's beams , To ... thou prouder and more hard than they ? The bleating sheep with my complaints agree , They parch'd with heat , and I ...
... thou canst not cure ! Ye fhady beeches , and ye cooling streams , Defence from Phoebus , not from Cupid's beams , To ... thou prouder and more hard than they ? The bleating sheep with my complaints agree , They parch'd with heat , and I ...
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... Thou , whom the Nine with Plautus ' wit infpire , The art of Terence , and Menander's fire , Whofe fenfe instructs us , and whofe humour charms , Whofe judgment fways us , and whofe rapture warms ! Attend Attend the Muse , tho ' low her ...
... Thou , whom the Nine with Plautus ' wit infpire , The art of Terence , and Menander's fire , Whofe fenfe instructs us , and whofe humour charms , Whofe judgment fways us , and whofe rapture warms ! Attend Attend the Muse , tho ' low her ...
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