Poems Upon Several Occasions By Benj. Hawkshaw |
An Allusion to Claudian's Epigram
on Archimedes's Sphere.
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Poems Upon Several Occasions | ||
An Allusion to Claudian's Epigram on Archimedes's Sphere.
When Jove beheld the vast ætherial WorldIn the small Compass of a Machine hurl'd,
He smil'd, then turning to the Gods, said he,
The Apish World pretends to copy me;
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As if that Man had travell'd once in Heav'n.
Poems Upon Several Occasions | ||