"'Tis in the power of Poetry to insinuate into the inmost Recesses of the Mind, to touch any Spring that moves the Hea…"

"Homer excels in Genius, Virgil in Judgment. Homer as conscious of his great Riches and Fullness entertains the Reader…"

"The Inclinations of Men, in this their degenerate State, carry them with great Force to those voluptuous Objects, tha…"

"No more of courts, of triumphs, or of arms, No more of Valour’s force, or Beauty's charms! The themes of vulgar lays …"

"Fame, which is the opinion the World expresses of any Man's excellent Endowments, is the Idol to which the finest spi…"

"Blackmore by the unremitted enmity of the wits, whom he provoked more by his virtue than his dulness, has been expose…"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"Auribus immensis quondam donatus asellus institit ut caudam posset habere parem. cauda suo capiti quia se conferre ne…"

"Those your wyne after thys sorte, it must be fyne, fayre & clere to the eye, it muste be fragraunte and redolent hauy…"

"Beefe is good meate for & Englyssh man so be it the beest be yonge, & that it be nat cowe flesshe. For olde befe & co…"