Oxford prize poems: being a collection of such English poems as have at various times obtained prizes in the University of Oxford.
- Date:
- 1807
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Oxford prize poems: being a collection of such English poems as have at various times obtained prizes in the University of Oxford. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![RECOMMENDATION OF THE STUDY OF THE REMAINS OF ANCIENT GRECIAN AND ROMAN ARCHITECTURE, SCULPTURE, AND PAINTING. [This Competition was originally reftrifiled to fifty lines ;—a few relative to Painting have fince been added.] THOUGH oft in Britain’s iile the breathing bull To fame conlign the patriot-hero’s dull. And conquerors wak’d to mimic life again In imag'd triumph thunder o'er the main ; Though fpeaks each mould by Flaxtnan's. genius wrought, The glow of fancy, or the llretch of thought;](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22018499_0109.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
