The poetical and dramatic works of Sir Charles Sedley Collected and Edited from the Old Editions: With a preface on the text, explanatory and textual notes, an appendix containing works of doubtful authenticity, and a bibliography: By V. de Sola Pinto |
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Oh wou'd my Life endure; cou'd I but raise
My Skill to suit thy Due, thy lofty Praise;
Tho' Thracian Orpheus did with me contend,
Not Thracian Orpheus shou'd in Verse transcend,
Nor Linus in sublimer Raptures fly,
Tho' each had his Illustrious Parent by,
My Skill to suit thy Due, thy lofty Praise;
Tho' Thracian Orpheus did with me contend,
Not Thracian Orpheus shou'd in Verse transcend,
Nor Linus in sublimer Raptures fly,
Tho' each had his Illustrious Parent by,
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