Poems on Several Occasions By Edward, Lord Thurlow. The Second Edition, considerably enlarged |
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[Who have been great, in this our mortal clime]
Who have been great, in this our mortal clime,Begirt around by the loud-voiced sea?
Why sacred Chaucer, that, in homely rhyme,
First held the lamp up to Posterity:
Then Spenser, in whose rich Virgilian strain
The moral Virtues are disposed fair:
Then glorious Milton, who surpass'd his reign
In depths of Hell, and in th' Olympick air:
But, most of all, and to our wond'ring eyes,
And to the eyes of all futurity,
Great Shakspeare stands, that was by Nature wise,
And made a spoil of his posterity;
When he was born, great Nature did her most,
And when he died, the World's delight was lost!
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