ESSAY EEN

The POETS of GREAT BRITAIN

COMPLETE FROM
CHAUCER to CHURCHILL.

DRYDEN VOLUME 1.

Satire has always thone among the rett,
And is the boldeft way, it not the beft,

Lage: 5.

Printed for John Bell near Exeter Exchange Strand London Marı"1777

Wide o'er the fields of glory bear

Two courfers of ethereal race,

With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-refounding pace.

Hark, his hands the lyre explore!

Bright ey'd Fancy hov'ring o'er,

Scatters from her pictur'd urn

Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
But ah! 't is heard no more.-

GRAY.

Bell's fecond edition

VOL. III.

EDINBURG:

LEGS
6. PRUNELLE

1853

AT THE Apollo Press, BY THE MARTINS.
Anno 1784.

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