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Excerpt from Philemon to Hydaspes: Relating a Conversation With Hortensius, Upon the Subject of False Religion T 11 E Ejay on Man (faid I) as ufual, I fuppofe, or fome of the other moral Pieces, of the fame excellent Author: for, to fay the truth, there are very' few other modern Performances in the poetical kind, which I can imagine a Man of your fedate rational turn of thinking would be likely to befiow fo ferious a review upon; Our latter Poets have feldom ri'fen higher than bare firmw mem' at the befi; pure Dcfiription for the moi't part balding the place of Serge with them till the celebrated Author yof the Efizy appear'd on the behalf of the long injur'd Mufis, and undertook to refcue them from an Imputation too com monly thrown upon them by Men of few rer Thought, of being become like too many others of their Sex, little better than agreeable Trz'flerr. He indeed, 'tis on all hands confefls'd, has abundantly re-efta bliih'd their finking Reputation has rais'd the facred Name and Othee of Poet to its original Credit and Dignity; or in his own beautiful way of exprefling ir. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.