Miscellaneous works, in verse and prose .. consisting of such as were never before printed in twelves With some account of the life and writings of th author . lt;ve3And taught the polifiit rocks to mineWith airs and lineaments divine;Till Greece, amazd, and half-afraid,Th* aiTembled deities furveyM Great Pan, who wont to chafe the fair,And lovd the fpreading oak, was there; Old Poems on feveral Occafions, 293 Old Saturn too with up-caft eyes Beheld his abdicated flues; And mighty Mars, for war renown*d, In adamantine armour frownd ; By him the childlefs goddefs rofe, Minerva, fludious to comp
Miscellaneous works, in verse and prose .. consisting of such as were never before printed in twelves With some account of the life and writings of th author . lt;ve3And taught the polifiit rocks to mineWith airs and lineaments divine;Till Greece, amazd, and half-afraid,Th* aiTembled deities furveyM Great Pan, who wont to chafe the fair,And lovd the fpreading oak, was there; Old Poems on feveral Occafions, 293 Old Saturn too with up-caft eyes Beheld his abdicated flues; And mighty Mars, for war renown*d, In adamantine armour frownd ; By him the childlefs goddefs rofe, Minerva, fludious to compofe Her tvvilted threads; the webb ftie ftrung, And oer a loom of marble hung: Thetis the troubled oceans Queen, Matchd with a mortal, next was feen, Reclining on a funeral urn, Her fhort-livd darling Son to mourn. The laft was he, whole thunder flew The Titan-vzce, a rebel crew, That from a hundred hills allyd In impious leagues their King defyd. This wonder of the fculptors handProduced, his art was at a Hand :For who would hope new fame to raife,Or rifque his well-eftablihYd praife,That, his high genius to approve,Had drawn a Gkorge, or-carvd a Jovet. POEM AT A. POEMATA. o • ####®««#€>####®*«^<5* • • HONORATISSIMO VIRO CAROLO MONTAGU A R M I G E R OSCACCHARII CANCELLARIO, iERARII PRiEFECTO, REGI a SECRETIORIBUSC O N 3 I L 11 S, &c. U M tanta auribus tuis obflre-pat vatum nequiilirnorum tur-ba, nihil eftcurqucraris aliquidinufitatum tibi contigilTe, ubiprsc arum hoc argumentunrmeis etiam numeris violatumconfpcxeris. Quantum virtute bellica prasftentBritanni, recens ex rebus geftis teftatur gloria ^quam vero in humanionbus Pads ftudiis iionemineamus, indicio funt quos nuprr in lucemeinifimus verficuli* Quod fi Congrevius ille
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