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POETICAL WORKS

OF

VINCENT BOURNE, M. A.

CONSISTING OF

ORIGINALS AND TRANSLATIONS.

To which are added his

LETTERS.

"I love the memory of VINNY BOURNE. I think him a better
"Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius; Ausonius, or any
"of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all in-
"ferior to him." Hayley's Life of Cowper,

A NEW EDITION-IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

OXFORD:

Printed by N. Bliss,

FOR R. BLISS, AND R. BLISS, JUN.

F. C. & J. Rivington, Cuthell & Martin, J. Richardson,
and J. Harding, London; and J. Deighton,

Cambridge.

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LENCX LIBRARY

NEW YORK

EXTRACT of a Letter from W. Cowper, Esq. to the Rev. W. Unwin.

"I LOVE the memory of Vinny Bourne. I "think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, "Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in "his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to "him. I love him too, with a love of partiality, "because he was usher of the fifth form at West"minster, when I passed through it. He was so

good natured, and so indolent, that I lost more "than I got by him; for he made me as idle as "himself. He was such a sloven, as if he had "trusted to his genius as a cloak for every thing "that could disgust you in his person; and in"deed in his writings, he has almost made amends "for all. His humour is entirely original-he

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