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An ode on the powers of poetry

To which are prefixed observations on taste, And on the Present State of Poetry and Criticism in England [by Thomas Cooke]
 

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Gratia Regum
Pieriis tentata Modis; Ludusque repertus,
Et longorum Operum Finis: ne forte Pudori
Sit tibi Musa Lyræ solers, et Cantor Apollo.
Hor.