= 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, 1819. MVR : 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; B |