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The Works of Richard Owen Cambridge

Including several pieces never before published: with an account of his life and character, by his son, George Owen Cambridge
Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)

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5. IMITATION OF SHAKSPEARE.

There is a honey-moon in works of Taste,
Which gazed on for awhile, grows full and splendid;
But in the wane is wasting to obscurity,
Shorn of its beams by wanton criticism,
Or hourly fading through satiety.
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