TO A CERTAIN AUTHOR, ON HIS WRITING A PROLOGUE, WHEREIN HE DESCRIBES A TRAVELLER FROZEN IN A SNOW STORM.

TO A CERTAIN AUTHOR, ON HIS WRITING A PROLOGUE, WHEREIN HE DESCRIBES A TRAVELLER FROZEN IN A SNOW STORM. Mary Alcock (née Cumberland) 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. T86344 Alcock [née Cumberland], Mary, 1741?–1798. Poems, &c. &c. by the Late Mrs. Mary Alcock [poems only]. London Printed for C. Dilly, Poultry 1799 p. 105. vii,[25],183,[1]p.

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TO A CERTAIN AUTHOR , ON HIS WRITING A PROLOGUE , WHEREIN HE DESCRIBES A TRAVELLER FROZEN IN A SNOW STORM . No more let poets vainly boast Their fine descriptive art , They ransack Nature's gayest store , Yet rarely warm the heart . Hail , happy Bard , whose brilliant wit , With more than Poet's art , Can from a frozen mass extract Fire that can melt the heart .