Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Vol. 1 of 2: With Remarks (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Vol. 1 of 2: With Remarks

His tranflation of Homer, timed as it was, operated like an undation 1n the Englifh Republic of Letters, and has left to ble marks on more than the furface of our poetry. Crating with the popular dream of his othe1 works, it rmed a fort of modern Helicon, on whofe banks infant are alluied to wander and to dream from whofe they are content to drink infpiration, without fearch remoter fources. Whether its waters are equally pure.

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Excerpt from Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Vol. 1 of 2: With Remarks

Hile the accumulated materials of fuccellive ages feem to have been requifite for the completion of other many of which, indeed, fiill remain imperfect and efiive, Poely, with a certain preternatural excentricity, inguifhed herlelf by arriving at a degree of com perfeélion, with leis gradual and adventitious afo nee.

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