Oculus Britanniae An Heroi-Panegyrical poem on the University of Oxford. Illustrated with divers beautiful Similes, and useful Digressions [by Nicholas Amhurst] |
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From hence, degenerate from the common throng,
Ev'n men of sense and probity have sprung;
Here Locke, the second Stagyrite, was bred,
Of modern reasoning whigs the boasted head;
Here Hales of ever-memorable fame,
And Chillingworth acquir'd a deathless name;
Here Kennet first disclos'd his god-like soul,
And Hough a tyrant's pleasure did controul;
Marsham from hence his piercing genius drew,
And Lloyd in these abodes immortal grew.
Ev'n men of sense and probity have sprung;
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Of modern reasoning whigs the boasted head;
Here Hales of ever-memorable fame,
And Chillingworth acquir'd a deathless name;
Here Kennet first disclos'd his god-like soul,
And Hough a tyrant's pleasure did controul;
Marsham from hence his piercing genius drew,
And Lloyd in these abodes immortal grew.
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