Miscellanea aurea: or the golden medley.

Date:
1720
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Miscellanea aurea: or the golden medley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which has recommended him to that Reception in Parnajfus which I am going to deferibe. Imagination, you know, Sir, has one of the foremoft Places in the Kingdom of Poetry ; and when it is large, and join'd with Judgment, forms an excellent Poet. How defective foever my Judgment may be, the following Difcourfe obliges me to enter the Kingdom of Fancy ; and I hope not wholly without the Guidance of Judgment and Art. In the early Times of Poetry, among the Re¬ tainers of Pamajfm, there was a fort of a flying Steed, call'd Pegafni, and none could afeend that Poetical Mountain, but tnofe that were carry'5d upon his Back; he firft bore Linm, the Son of Apollo, Orphem, the Son of Calliope, Mofcn5, Mufam, Hefiod, and Homer, who had Force and Addrefs enough to rein and guide him at their Will. Nor was Pegafm uneafy with his Riders, to bear one Poet in an Age was no great Labour to him ; nay, he fuller'd quietly their encreafe for many Years; nor did he re¬ pine that he was fo often call'd on in Greece, not only by the Men, as Pindar and Anacreon, Man- nermm, Efchylm, Sophocles, Euripides, Agatho, cTho~ lyides> ‘TheodeBes, and many others; but by the Ladies likewife, as Sappho, Erinna, Connna, and feveral others of that Sex. But when Poetry be¬ gan to fpread into Ionia, Sicily, and even to Egypt, in the Reign of Ptolomy Philadelphia, he found the Journeys too long and tedious, and too frequent for him to perform the whole Bufinefs of Pamajfm himfelf ,* and therefore pre¬ vail'd with the Mufes to intercede with Apollo$ B % that?
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