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Identifier: essayuponliterat00defo (find matches)
Title: An essay upon literature: or, An enquiry into the antiquity and original of letters; proving that the two tables, written by the finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first writing in the world, and that all other alphabets derive from the Hebrew ; with a short view of the methods made use of by the antients to supply the want of letters before, and improve the use of them, after they were known
Year: 1726 (1720s)
Authors: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Subjects: Alphabet
Publisher: London : Printed for Tho. Bowles ...
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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OXFORD. Printed at the Clarendon Printing-Houfe. MDCCXXX.
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^#.S<?& Pavhjatfr. T O The Right Honourable H E N R T Earl of Clarendonand Rochefter. F Orgive the Mufe, if (yet unknown to Fame)She feeks Protection from your LardjbipsName $ a 2 Weak DEDI CATION. Weak in herfelf, fhe dares not hope to ftand,Unlefs fupported by an abler Hand:So creep the Ringlets of the tender VineRound fome tall Elm, and all their Curls entwir,Sweetly luxuriant by this Aid they rife,And fhoot their fwelling Gutters to the Skies.O! jvoeet as thefe could but my Numbers flow!Could but my Verfe to fucb full J^ipenefs grow!Then might I hope, nor hope in vain to feeThe beft of Patrons and of Friends in Thee:But ah! my Lord! I know my felf too well,Thefe Lines, thefe artlefs Lines my Weaknefs telWhat Beauty muft thofe Numbers recommend,That fondly hope a Clarendon their Friend!Bright in Each manly Grace muft they appear,Free as their Patrons Mien, and as his Virtues clea* Poets were born the Great-Man s Paths to vie^And give the Patriot all a Patriots Due -3 T DEDIC