To the AUTHORESS of some Lines on STRAWBERRY-HILL. Horace Walpole Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T124631 1073 K099398.000 Mendez, Moses. A collection of the most esteemed pieces of poetry: that have appeared for several years. With variety of originals, by the late Moses Mendez, Esq; and other contributors to Dodsley's collection. To which this is intended as a supplement. London printed for Richardson and Urquhart 1767 p. 225. [8],320p. ; 8⁰.

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To the AUTHORESS of some Lines on STRAWBERRY-HILL . By the Hon. HORACE WALPOLE . MISTAKEN fair one , check thy fancy's flight , Nor let fond poetry misguide thy sight . The sweet creation , by thy pencil drawn , Nor real in the fabric , nor the lawn . Less in the master , is the picture true , Unlike the portrait , and improv'd the view . A trifling , careless , short-liv'd writer , he Nor Envy's topic can , nor object be . Nor pasteboard walls , nor mimic towers are fit , To exercise her tooth , or Delia's wit . No 'twas Parnassus did her fancy fill , Which the kind maid mistook for Strawb'ry-hill : While Modesty persuaded her to place Another on that mount she ought to grace .