 | Christopher Smart - 1752 - 264 pages
...compar'd, his text perufe;. Or let your comment be the Mantuan mufe. . •f When firft young Maro fung of kings and wars, Ere warning Phoebus touch'd his trembling ears, Perhaps he leem'd above the critic's law, And but from nature's fountains fcorn'd to draw ; But when t'examine... | |
 | Virgil - 1778 - 478 pages
...undertaking above his years, by the reafon affigned by our Emnifli Boilcau, ' When When firft young Maro fung of kings and wars, Ere warning Phoebus touch'd his trembling ears, Perhaps he feem'd above the critic's law, And but from nature's fountains fcorn'd to draw; But when t' examine... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...Mantuan Muse. When first young Maro in his boundless mind 130 A work t' outlast immortal Rome design'd, Perhaps he seem'd above the critic's law, And but...Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw : But when t' examine ev'ry part he came, Nature and Homer were, he found, the same. 135 Convinc'd, amaz'd, he checks the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...Mantuan Muse. When first young Maro in his boundless mind A work to' outlast immortal Rome design'd, Perhaps he seem'd above the critic's law, And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw: But when to' examine every part he came, Nature and Homer were, be found, the same. Convinc'd, amaz'd, he checks... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...Mantuan Muse. When first young Maro in his boundless mind A work to' outlast immortal Rome design'd, Perhaps he seem'd above the critic's law, And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw: But when to' examine every part he came, Natnre and Homer were, he found, the same. Convinc'd, amaz'd, he checks... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...Mantuau Muse. When first young Maro in his boundless mind A work t' outlast immortal Rome design'd, Perhaps he seem'd above the Critic's law, And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw : But when Г examine ev'ry part he came, Nature and Homer were, he found, the same. Convinc'd, amazM, he checks... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...Mantuan Muse. When first young Maro, in his boundless mind A work t' outlast immortal Rome design'd. Perhaps he seem'd above the critic's law, And but from nature's fountains scorn* d to draw: But when t' examine every part he came, Nature and Homer were, he found, the same.... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...Mantuan Muse. When first young Maro in his boundless mind A work to' outlast immortal Rome design'd, Perhaps he seem'd above the critic's law, And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw : Bat when to' examine every part he came, Mature and Homer were, he found, the same. Conrioc'd, amaa'd,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...your comment be the Mantuan muse. + When first young Maro sung of kings and wars, Ere warning Phcebus touch'd his trembling ears. Perhaps he seem'd above...fountains scorn'd to draw, But when t' examine every part became, Nature and Homer were, he found, the same ; Convinc'd, amaz'd, he checks the hold design, And... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...Mantuan muse. When first young Maro in his boundless mind a work t' outlast immortal Rome design'd, 131 perhaps he seem'd above the critic's law, and but...nature's fountains scorn'd to draw; but when t' examine ev'ry part he came, nature and Homer were, he found, the same. 13' Convinc'd, amaz'd he checks the... | |
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A work t* outlast immortal Rome design'd, Perhaps he seem'd above the Critic's law, And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw: But when t' examine ev'ry part he came, Nature and Homer were, he found, the same. 
