<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537951" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Mrs. Throckmorton, On Her Beautiful Transcript Of Horace's Ode Ad Librum Suum</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maria, could Horace have guessed<br>What honour awaited his ode<br>To his little volume addressed,<br>The honour which you have bestowed,--<br>Who have traced it in characters here,<br>So elegant, even, and neat,<br>He had laughed at the critical sneer<br>Which he seems to have trembled to meet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And sneer, if you please, he had said,<br>A nymph shall hereafter arise<br>Who shall give me, when you are all dead,<br>The glory your malice denies;<br>Shall dignity give to my lay,<br>Although but a mere bagatelle;<br>And even a poet shall say,<br>Nothing ever was written so well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537951" data-title="To Mrs. Throckmorton, On Her Beautiful Transcript Of Horace's Ode Ad Librum Suum de William Cowper" data-description="Maria, could Horace have guessed What honour awaited his ode To his little volume addressed, The honour which you have bestowed,-- Who have traced it in characters here, So elegant, even, and neat, He had laughed at the critical sneer Which he see..."></div> </div> </div>

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