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14528	Cobb, Samuel	Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry From Poems On Several Occasions (1707)			.txt	text/plain	9206	895	87	The _Muse_, which smiles on jingling Bards, like Me, Rules they can write, but, like the _College Tribe_, same Author, when he tells us that the Greatness of_ Homer's _Soul So to Thy Fame a _Pyramid_ shall rise, Nor shall the Poet fix thee in the Skies. (For 'tis thy Praise) on each unworthy Line, Shall cause like Travail, and as great a Pain. Tho' Art ne're taught him how to write by Rules, Like _Waller's_ Muse, who tho' inchain'd by Rhime, Like those _Seraphick_ flames of which He Sung. And Rules for _Dryden_, like a _Dryden_, Writes. O could I Write in thy Immortal Way! That little praise my unknown Muse can give. With Flame begin thy Glorious Thoughts and Style, Whose Verse, like a proportion'd Man, we find, To lay Thy Trumpet down, and sing of Love. For still we view the _Sacred Poet's_ praise.	./cache/14528.txt	./txt/14528.txt