Poems on Several Occasions With Imitations from Horace, Ovid, Martial, Theocritus, Bachylides, Anacreon, &c. To which is prefix'd A Discourse on Criticism, and the Liberty of Writing. In a letter to a Friend. By Samuel Cobb ... The Third Edition. To which is added, Poems on the Duke of Marlborough, Prince Eugene, the Electoral Prince of Hannover, with other Poems. Never before Printed |
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On the Birth of the Duke of Britany.
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On the Birth of the Duke of Britany.
Boast not, Great Bourbon, of thy num'rous TrainOf Princes born to a successive Reign.
ANJOU lamenting his untimely Fall,
On his Progenitor shall vainly call.
Curst with a tedious multiplying Race,
For length of Issue lengthens thy Disgrace.
Remember Priam, by old Homer sung,
From whose prolifick Loyns the fiftieth Hero sprung.
The Ghost of Dardanus was pleas'd to see,
And smil'd on his ill-fated Progeny.
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Against his Fortunes, and prevail'd with Jove.
No more Apollo could Assistance give,
But caus'd their Miseries in Verse to live.
Hector, untimely, felt the Pelian Steel,
Dragg'd at the Conqueror's triumphant Wheel.
In vain Astyanax, untaught to speak,
With tender Tears besought the ruthless Greek.
Ah Troy! from Thee let Kingdoms learn their End,
When False Laomedons the Throne ascend.
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