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Granv. Sir J. Denh.
sons of Quality, and the Affairs of a Court. Mr. Granville, my Lord, hath rivall'd him in his finest Address, and is as happy, as he ever was, in raising modern Compliments upon ancient Story, and setting off the British Valour and the English Beauty, with the old Gods and Goddesses.
Sir John Denham is famed for his Cooper's-Hill, and Windsor is more honoured in being the Subject of his Prospect, than the Hill is in being the Subject of his Poem. For Windsor is only the Ornament of his Hill, but his Poem is the Ornament of Windsor.
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