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Modern Parnassus;

OR, THE

NEW ART OF POETRY,

A POEM,

DESIGNED TO SUPERSEDE THE RULES
OF ARISTOTLE, HORACE, LONGINUS,
VIDA, BOILEAU, AND POPE.


Et te, Phœbe, choris, et te dimittimus, Evan;
Tu quoque muta feræ, volucer Tegeæe, sonoræ
Terga premas: alios poscunt mea carmina cœtus.
Stat. Syl. lib. v, 2cl. 5. 


LONDON

PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON AND CO.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

1814.