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Excerpt from Literary Pamphlets, Vol. 2: Chiefly Relating to Poetry, From Sidney to Byron
Late, when as they shall observe yee in the midd'st of your Victories and successes more gently brooking writt'n exceptions against a voted Order, then other Courts, which had produc't nothing worth memory but the weake ostentation of wealth, would have endur'd the least signifi'd dislike at any sudden Proclama tion. If I should thus farre presume upon the meek demeanour of your civill and gentle great nesse, Lords and Commons, as what your pub lisht Order hath directly said, that to gainsay, I might defend my selfe with ease, if any should accuse me of being new or insolent, did they but know how much better I find ye esteem it to imitate the old and elegant humanity of Greece, then the barbarick pride of a Hunnish and Norwegian state-lines. And out of those ages, to Whose polite wisdom and letters we ow that we are not yet Gothes and Jutlanders, I could name him 1 who from his private house wrote that discourse to the Parlament of Athens, that perswades them to change the forme of Democraty Which was then establisht. Such honour was done in those dayes to men who profest the study of wisdome and eloquence, not only in their own Country, but in other.
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