The strains of the British muses. Being, a select variety of elegant and interresting essays, tales, fables, songs, odes, elegies, pastorals, familiar epistles, celebrated passages &c. Collected from the Works of Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Addison, Swift, Young, Thomson, Gay, Parnel, Moore, Warton, Akenside, Woty, Gray, Mason, Goldsmith, Fingal, &c. Together with some plain rules for the construction of English Verse, and a catalogue of the Words that agree in sound to serve as rhymes. Intended for the use of foreigners abroad, who learn the english language, and wish to become acquainted with the productions of the best english Poets. By Ph. Pepin.

Date:

1779