Excerpt from A Collection of Poems: In Six Volumes, by Several Hands
The Nymph: who prefide over jprings and rivu let: are ad drefléd at day-break in honour of their feveral funfii one, and of the relations which they hear t o the ml and to the moral world. Their origin is deduced from the fir]! Allegorical deities, or power: of nature according to the dofirine of the old mthological poets, concerning the generation of the God: and the rife. Of things. They are then fucceflively confidered, a: giving motion to the air and exciting fummer-breezes; a: nouryhing and ham ti/j'ing the vegetahle world; a: contributing to the ful nejff of navigable rivers, and confequently to the main tenance of commerce and by that means, to the mari time part of militaoy power. Next is reprej'ented their.
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