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NHG-P.762.054
17 Sep 1762:43 (311)
Just published, and sold at the Printing Office in this
town, a book entitled, War: An Heroic Poem; From the taking
of Minorca by the French, to the Raising of the Siege of
Quebec by General Murray; with marginal notes; being a very
compleat history of the war.....Printed in London; and re
printed in Portsmouth, Price ten shillings and six pence
sterling . . . It has been highly recommended by men of the
best sense, judgment and learning . . . There not having
been any performance to equal it since the way began.
. . . [60 lines of excerpt from the preface]
Mine be the task the English war to sing,
Great Britain's heroes and Great Britain's King;
O'er ocean's space, my fancy wings its way,
Where George the second, rules with sov'reign sway
Our patriots hearts and merits, I proclaim,
To decorate the great heroic theme!
. . . [20 more lines of verse]
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