The Works of the English Poets: Cowley

firft, to weigh, examine, and prove, all things of nature delivered to us by former ages; to detect, explode, and strike a cenfure, through, all false monies with which the world has been paid and cheated fo long; and (as I may fay) to fet the mark of the college upon all true coins, that they may pass hereafter without any farther trial: fecondly, to recover the loft inventions, and, as it were, drowned lands of the ancients: thirdly, to improve all arts which we now have and laftly, to discover others which we yet have not:

and who shall,

befides all this (as a benefit by the bye), give the best education in the world (purely gratis) to as many men's children as fhall think fit to make use of the obligation? Neither does it at all check or interfere with any parties in a state or religion; but is indifferently to be embraced by all differences in opinion, and can hardly be conceived capable (as many good inftitutions have done) even of degeneration into any thing harmful. So that, all things confidered, I will fuppofe this propolition fhall encounter with no enemies: the only question is, whether it will find friends enough to carry it on from difcourfe and defign to reality and effect; the neceffary expences of the beginning (for it will maintain itself well enough afterwards) being fo great (though I have fet them as low as is poffible, in order to fo vaft a work), that it may seem hopeless to raise fuch a fum out of thofe few dead relics of human charity and public generofity which are yet remaining in the world.

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CONTENTS

THE SECOND VOLUME.

PINDARIC ODES, WRITTEN IN IMITATION
OF THE STILE AND MANNER OF THE
ODES OF PINDAR.

PREFAC

REFACE

The fecond Olympic Ode of Pindar

The first Nemean Ode of Pindar

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The Praife of Pindar. In Imitation of Horace's fecond