Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) And the Essay On Heroic Poetry (Second Edition, 1697)
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} 600 A _Godlike Person_, and an _equal Mind_! } [Sidenote: _Paraphrase on_ Psal. 148 O Azure Vaults, &c. ] The _next_ in Dignity, if not the _same_, Is Deathless Dorsot's lov'd and noble _Name_: How did he sing, (listen'd the _Heav'nly Quire_;) The Wond'rous Notes of DAVID's _Royal Lyre_! Ah! _Why no more_ must we for ever long And vainly languish for so _sweet_ a _Song_? The next is _Tityrus_, who not disdains To read his _Name_ among the _tuneful Swains_; _Unweary'd_ in his _Prince's_ glorio...us _Cause_, 610 As he of _Faith_, Defender of the _Laws_; _Easie_ to all but to himself, he shares His Monarch's _Favours_, and his Monarch's _Cares_: His flowing _Language_ cloaths his _massie Sense_, } Nor makes with _pompous Words_ a vain pretence, } _Sound_ without _Soul_, to _Wit_ and _Eloquence_. } Tho _Great_, he's still the same he was before: --I _sue for nothing_, and I'll say no more. _Montague_ left the _Muses_ peaceful _Seat_, And bore the _Cares_ and _Honours_ of the _Great_: 620 The _Pollio_ he of our _Augustan_ days, Who _Wit_ rewards with more than _hungry Praise_; _True Worth_ his _Patronage_ can never miss, He has his _Prince's Smiles_ and _that_ has _his_.
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