Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages

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Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages (1777)
William Jones
53313Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages1777William Jones


POEMS,
CONSISTING CHIEFLY
OF
TRANSLATIONS
FROM THE
ASIATICK LANGUAGES.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED
TWO ESSAYS;

II. On the Poetry of the Eastern Nations.
II. On the Arts, commonly called Imitative.

————Juvat integros accedere fontes,
Atque haurire, juvatque novos decerpere flores. Lucr.



THE SECOND EDITION.



LONDON:
Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols;
For N. CONANT (Successor to Mr. WHISTON),
in Fleet Street.
M DCC LXXVII.

TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE COUNTESS SPENCER,

THESE EASTERN PIECES,

AND, PARTICULARLY,

THE POEM OF

SOLIMA,

ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY

INSCRIBED

BY HER LADYSHIP'S

MOST OBLIGED

AND FAITHFUL SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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