The Works of George Lord Lyttelton Formerly Printed Separately And Now First
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Tlie Mufes incite to adion, as well as entertain the hours of repofe ; and I think you fhould honour them for prefenting to heroes fuch a noble recreation, as may prevent their taking up the dijlaff, when they lay down the club. Here. Wits as well as heroes can take up the diftaff. What think you of their thin-fpun fyllems of philo- fophy, or lafcivious poems, or Milefian fables? Nay» what is dill worfe, are there not panegyrics on tyrants, and books that blafpheme the gods, and perplex the nat...ural fenfe of right and wrong ^ I believe, if Eu- riftheus was to fet me to work again, he would find me a worfe tafl^ than any he impofed ; he would make me read through a great library ; and I would ferve it as I did the Hydra, I would burn as I went on, that one chimera might not rife from another^ to plague mankind. I fhould have valued myfeif more on clearing the library, than on cleanfmg the Auge- an ftables. Cadm. It is in thofe libraries only that the memory of your labours exifts. The heroes of Marathon, the patriots of Thermopylae, owe their immortality tome.
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