This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1752 Excerpt: ...By Crab the curate, new seem wond'rous odd, That either came immediately from God: In all the writings of those high-flown-ages 85 You meet with now and then some scatter'd pages Wrote with some spirit, and with sense enough; These sell the book, the rest is wretched stusf: b I'm quite provok'd, when principles, tho' ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1752 Excerpt: ...By Crab the curate, new seem wond'rous odd, That either came immediately from God: In all the writings of those high-flown-ages 85 You meet with now and then some scatter'd pages Wrote with some spirit, and with sense enough; These sell the book, the rest is wretched stusf: b I'm quite provok'd, when principles, tho' true, Must stand impeach'd by fools, because they're new. 90 Shou'd Recte nccne crocum floresque perambulat Attae Fabula ft dubitem, clament periisse pudorem Cuncti pene patres, ea cum reprendere coner Quae gravis AEsopus, quae doctus Roscius egit. Vel quia nil rectum, nisi quod placuit sibi, ducunt, d Vcl quia turpe putant parere minoribus, & qua; Imberbes didicere, senes perdenda fateri. 'Jam Saliare Numae carmen qui laudat, & illud Quod mecum ignorat, solus vult scire videri; Ingeniis non ille favet plauditque sepultis, Nostra fed impugnat, nos nostraque lividus odit. I Quod si tarn Graecis novitas invisa fu islet Quam nobis, quid nunc esset vetus? aut quid haberet Quod legeret, tereretque viritim publicus usus?-B Ut primum positis nugari Graecia belli Cccpit, & in vitium fortuna labier aequa, h Nunc athletarum studiis, nunc arsit equorum, 1 Marmoris, aut eboris fabros, at aeris amavit: Suspendit picta vultum mentemque tabella: 'Nunc c Shou'd I but question, only for a joke, If all was flow'rs, when pompous Hanmer. spoke, If things went right, when St. John trod the stage, How the old tories all wou'd storm and rage! They shun conviction, or because a truth 95 Confess'd in age implies they err'd in youth; Or that they scorn to learn of junior wits: --What!--to be taught by Lyttletons and Pitts! e When angry patriots or in prose or rhymes, Extoll the virtuous deeds of former times, 100 The
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