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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ... thine, 70 And thou art sought by my propitious friend; For there thou shalt be read With authors of exalted note, The ancient glorious lights of Greece and Rome. EPODE. Ye, then, my works, no longer vain 75 And worthless deemed by me! Whate'er this sterile genius has produced, Expect, at last, the rage of Envy spent, An unmolested happy home, Gift of kind Hermes, and my watchful friend, so Where never flippant tongue profane Shall entrance find, And whence the coarse unlettered multitude Shall babble far remote. Perhaps some future distant age, 85 Less tinged with prejudice, and better taught, Shall furnish minds of power To judge more equally. Then, Malice silenced in the tomb, Cooler heads and sounder hearts, 90 Thanks to Rous, if aught of praise I merit, shall with candour weigh the claim. TRANSLATIONS OF THE ITALIAN POEMS. SONNET. J AIR Lady! whose harmonious name the Rhine, f Through all his grassy vale, delights to hear, Base were indeed the wretch who could forbear To love a spirit elegant as thine, That manifests a sweetness all divine, 5 Nor knows a thousand winning acts to spare, And graces, which Love's bow and arrows are, Tempering thy virtues to a softer shine. When gracefully thou speakest, or singest gay, Such strains as might the senseless forest move, Ah then--turn each his eyes and ears away, 11 Who feels himself unworthy of thy love! Grace can alone preserve him ere the dart Of fond desire yet reach his inmost heart. Poems of Milton translated by Cowper, 1808, p. 93. t Masson adduces reasons for supposing (i. 772, ) that this river was the Reno, which flows close by Bologna, and not the Rhine. It is Rheno in the original. VOL. III. SONNET. iS on a hill-top rude, when closing day Imbrowns the scene, some pastoral maiden fair Wa...

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