Volume: v. 5 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1758 Original Publisher: Printed by J. Hughs for R. and J. Dodsley Subjects: English poetry Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / General Poetry / Anthologies Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: To Mrs. B I N D O N at Bath. By the Honourable Sir C. H. Williams. APOLLO of old on Britannia did fmile, And Delphi, forfook for the fake . of this ifle, Around him he lavifhly- fcatterVi his lays, ., And in every wildernefs planted his bays; Then Chaucer and Spenfer harmonious were heard, Then Shakefpear, and Milton, and Waller appear’d, And Dryden, whofe brows by Apollo were crown’d, As he fung in fuch ftrains as the God might have own’d: But now, fmce the laurel is given of late -, ! . To Cibber, to Eufden, to Shadwel and Tate, r, Apollo hath quitted the ifle he once lov’d, And his harp and his bays to Hibernia remov’d; He vows and he fwears he’ll infpire us no more, And has put out Pope’s fires which he kindled before; And further he fays, men no longer fhall boaft1–‘ ’ A fcience their flight and ill treatment hath loft;‘ . But that tuomen alone for the future fhall write; And who can refift, when they doubly delight ? -: And left we-fliou’d doubt what he faid to be true: Has begun by infpiring Saphira and Yob., ’;-.‘ iv.. i: Mrs. Mrs. B I N D O N’s Answer. WHEN home I return’d from the dancing laft night, And elate by your praifes attempted to write, I familiarly call’d on Apollo for aid, . And told him how many fine things you had faiJ; He fmil’d at my folly, and gave me to know, Your wit, and not mine, by your writing you fhew; And…