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BEING

A COLLECTION

OF SUCH

ENGLISH POEMS

AS HAVE

AT VARIOUS TIMES OBTAINED PRIZES

IN THE

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

SIXTH EDITION.

OXFORD,

PRINTED FOR J. PARKER:

ALSO BY F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; AND LONGMAN,
HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, LONDON.

1819.

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BAXTER, PRINTER, OXFORD.

1806 A Recommendation of the Study of the Remains of

Ancient Grecian and Roman Architecture, Sculp-

ture, and Painting

1807 Moses, under the direction of Divine Providence,

conducting the Children of Israel from Egypt to

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:

:

THE

CONQUEST OF QUEBEC.

Επίσασθε γὰρ δήπε ὅτι ἔτε πλῆθός ἔσιν, ἔτε ἰσχὺς ἡ ἐν τῷ του λέμῳ τὰς νίκας ποιῆσα· ἀλλ ̓ ὁπότεροι ἂν σὺν τοῖς Θεοῖς ταῖς ψυχαῖς ἐῤῥωμενέσεροι ἴωσιν ἐπὶ σὲς πολεμίες.

XENOPH. Cyri Exped. lib. iii.

FAREWELL ye Naiads who

your tresses lave

Where Isis rolls her unpolluted wave:

Far off to regions unexplor'd I fly,

To savage nations and a frozen sky;

Where the Laurentian stream his copious stores

In whitening torrents to th' Atlantic pours;

Where never echo his steep banks along

Heard the sweet accents of a Muse's song;

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