The Author, 1763 [ Concepts ]
… O'er crabbed authors life's gay prime to waste, To cramp wild genius in the chains of taste, To bear the slavish drudgery of schools, … to please, Rail at all lib'ral arts, deem verse a crime, And hold not Truth, as Truth, if told in rime? … Poetry … The author: A poem. By C. Churchill. London: printed for W. Flexney; G. Kearsly; J. Coote; C. Henderson; J. Gardiner; and J. Almon, 1763, p. 2-6. Full text at ECCO TCP. … The Author, 1763 …
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