Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from English Minstrelsy, Vol. 1 of 2: Being a Selection of Fugitive Poetry From the Best English Authors; With Some Original Pieces Hitherto Unpublished
Tell me, ye muses, what our father-ages Have left succeeding times to play upon What now remains unthought on by those sages, Where a new muse may try her pinion? What lightning heroes, like great Peleus' heir, (darting his beams through our hard frozen airy) May stir up gentle heat, and virtue's wane repair?
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