Homer's "Song arose / As the good Parson's quiet Sermon grows; / Who, while his easy thoughts no pressure find / From hosts of images that crowd the mind, / First calmly settles on some moral text, / Then creeps--from one division--to the next"
An Essay on Epic Poetry
4 entries in LION and ESTC (1782, 1785, 1788).<br>
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First published as <u>An Essay on Epic Poetry; in Five Epistles to the Rev<sup>d</sup>. M<sup>r</sup>. Mason. With Notes</u>. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t1jh3tg9w">Link to Hathi Trust</a>&gt;
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Reprinted in <u>Poems and Plays, by William Hayley, Esq.</u> (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1785). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111425349&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; <br>
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Text from new edition of <u>Poems and Plays, by William Hayley, Esq.</u> (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1788). See also William Hayley, <u>Poems and Plays, by William Hayley, Esq.</u>, vol. 3 of 6 vols. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1785). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111425349&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;