Mr. Addison's fine ode to Dr. Thomas Burnet, on his sacred theory of the earth: Done into English by the author of a late tale call'd Coffee.
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- Mr. Addison's fine ode to Dr. Thomas Burnet, on his sacred theory of the earth: Done into English by the author of a late tale call'd Coffee.
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- Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.
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- London :: printed for T. Warner,
- 1727.
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"Mr. Addison's fine ode to Dr. Thomas Burnet, on his sacred theory of the earth: Done into English by the author of a late tale call'd Coffee." In the digital collection Eighteenth Century Collections Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/004895430.0001.000. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2025.
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TO THE KING and QUEEN's MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIES.
SIR and MADAM!
THE noble System, of which Mr. Addison's incomparable Poem is an exact Miniature; was gra∣ciously received, when formerly addressed to a KING and a QUEEN, Your Royal Predecessors. Together with which Gentleman's most elegant Epitome, my faint
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Copy of it is submissively offered at the Feet of BOTH Your MAJESTIES; that ONE in a well-tasted Dead-language, the OTHER in an obliged and favoured Living-one, may take a summary View of the Place of Your SECOND Coronation; in happy Prelude to a THIRD, which Ye are farther to enjoy, in the ultimate and beatific Recep∣tacle of the JUST and GOOD. A pre∣sumptuous Wish, that these grand Revolu∣tions may, for your People's intermediate Advantage, commence Late, must first ask Pardon; and, on that Dependence, is sincere∣ly professed to be the constant and fervent Prayer, of almost the Privatest amongst
Your MAJESTIES Most Unfeigned, most Humble, And most Obedient Subjects.