Poems on Several Occasions With Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII. An Epistle. By Mrs. Elizabeth Tollet. The Second Edition |
The Triumvirate of Poets.
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The Triumvirate of Poets.
Britain with Greece and Rome contended longFor lofty Genius and poetic Song:
Till this Augustan Age with Three was blest,
To fix the Prize, and finish the Contest.
In Addison immortal Virgil reigns;
So pure his Numbers, so refin'd his Strains:
Of Nature full, with more impetuous Heat,
In Prior Horace shines, sublimely great.
Thy Country, Homer! we dispute no more,
For Pope has fix'd it to his native Shore.
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