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Rh towards the modern improvements, that we may in justice consider them as good authority for establishing some clauses of the new digest of poetical law.

It has been no small consolation to me, while I have been labouring in the execution of my plan, to think that I might be instrumental in making the road to poetical honours still more easy than it was before; and that, instead of being shadowed forth as formerly, by a steep, it may henceforth be represented by a gentle descent, "so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming ."