Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) by Samuel Wesley
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Fierce with a _thousand Throats_, a _thousand Hands_! 1080
_Rescue_ once more thy _Trojans sacred Line_ } From _slavish Chains_, so shall thy _Temples_ shine } With _Stars_, and all _Elysium_ shall be _thine_. } _FINIS._ FOOTNOTES: [1] _Vide Edda Samundi--apud Sheringham, de Gentis Anglorum Origine, pag._ 28, 29. _Hiaelp beiter eitt eun thad thier hialpa mun Vid Sikum og Sottum goiru allum, Thad kenn eg aunad er thorfa Ita Syner their ed vilia lakner lisfa._ [Transcriber's Note: extremely difficult to read in the original. Transcription may not be accurate.] I know your only Help, the pow'rful Charm That aids in ev'ery Grief and every Harm, I know the Leaches Craft, and what they need Who Doctors in that Noble Art proceed. [2] the _Vide_ British Chronicle, _and_ Taliessin's _Prophecies_; Prryff fard l'yffred in ydwyfi i Elphin Am gwalad gynifio [indecipherable] Goribbin. Ionas ddewn am golwis Merddin |
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