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Page 20 - Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 28 - TALES OF THE GENII ; or, the Delightful Lessons of Horam, the Son of Asmar.
Page 7 - THE SATIRES of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into ENGLISH VERSE BY Mr. DRYDEN, AND Several other Eminent Hands. Together with the SATIRES OF Aulus Persius Flaccus. Made English by Mr. Dryden. With Explanatory Notes at the end of each SATIRE. To which is Prefix'da Discourse concerning the Original and Progress of SATIRE.
Page 17 - Remembrances for Order and Decency to be kept in the Upper House of Parliament by the Lords when His Majesty is not there.
Page 38 - Historic of Cambria, now called Wales: A part of the most famous Yland of Brytaine, written in the Brytish language above two hundreth yeares past: translated into English by H. Lhoyd, gentleman: Corrected, augmented, and continued out of Records and best approoved Authors, by David Powel, Doctor in Divinitie.
Page 36 - BUTLER (Samuel). — Hudibras, in three parts, written in the Time of the Late Wars : Corrected and Amended.
Page 6 - A Letter from Mr. Gibber to Mr. Pope, Inquiring into the Motives that might induce him in his Satyrical Works, to be frequently fond of Mr. Cibber's Name.
Page 21 - GALLUS ; or, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus : with Notes and Excursuses illustrative of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Romans.
Page 7 - Vindiciiie, or Clieveland's genuine poems, orations, epistles, &c. , purged from the many false and spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable errours and corruptions in the true...
Page 6 - Now first published in order to cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of both Sexes.