The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume I. by Theophilus Cibber
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with the duke of Anjou, printed in a book called Serinia Ceciliana,
4to. 1663. Astrophel & Stella, written at the desire of Lady Rich, whom he perfectly loved, and is thought to be celebrated in the Arcadia by the name of Philoclea. --------------- Ourania, a poem, 1606. An Essay on Valour: Some impute this to Sir Thomas Overbury. Almanzor and Almanzaida, a novel printed in 1678, which is likewise disputed; and Wood says that he believes Sir Philip's name was only prefixed to it by the bookseller, to secure a demand for it. --------England's Helicon, a collection of songs. --------The Psalms of David turned into English. The true PICTURE of LOVE. Poore painters oft with silly poets joyne, To fill the world with vain and strange conceits, One brings the stuff, the other stamps the coyne Which breeds nought else but glosses of deceits. Thus painters Cupid paint, thus poets doe A naked god, blind, young, with arrows two. Is he a god, that ever flyes the light? Or naked he, disguis'd in all untruth? |
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