The art of English poetryContaining . zvet the thirfiy Earth zuith falling Shozurs^Piftng or falling, fill advance his Praife, ye Winds f that from four garters joft or loud, and zvave your Tops, ye Pines IWith evry Plant, in Sign of Worfnp, / and ye that zvarble as you flozuMelodious Murmurs, zuarbling tune his Voices all ye living Souls, ye Birds IThatfinging, up to Heavns high Gate on your Wings, and in your Notes his that in Waters glide ! and -ie that walk Tht 40 Rules for makings &c. The Earth I and flatel-^ treads
The art of English poetryContaining . zvet the thirfiy Earth zuith falling Shozurs^Piftng or falling, fill advance his Praife, ye Winds f that from four garters joft or loud, and zvave your Tops, ye Pines IWith evry Plant, in Sign of Worfnp, / and ye that zvarble as you flozuMelodious Murmurs, zuarbling tune his Voices all ye living Souls, ye Birds IThatfinging, up to Heavns high Gate on your Wings, and in your Notes his that in Waters glide ! and -ie that walk Tht 40 Rules for makings &c. The Earth I and flatel-^ treads or lowly creep ;Witncfs if I be filent^ Evn or Morn,To Hill or Valley^ Fountain, or frefls Shade,Made Vocal by my Song, atid taugh his Praife. Thus I have given a fliort Account of all the Sorts ofPoems that are moil usd in our Language. The Acrollicks^Anagrams, ifjc. deferve not to be rnentiond, and we mayiay of them what an anticnt Poet faid long ago, Stultum eft difficiles habere ntigas^Et ftultus labor eft ineptiarum. FINIS,. COLLECTION O F T H E Mojl Natural and Sublime THOUGHTS; VIZ. Allufions, Similies, Defcriptions and Charadters, of Persons and Things,that are in the beft Englifj Poets. Sic pfitcs^ quoniam fuaves mifcetlsOdores. Virg.
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