POEMS,
CONSISTING CHIEFLY
OF
TRANSLATIONS
FROM THE
ASIATICK LANGUAGES.
TO WHICH ARE ADDED
TWO ESSAYS;
II. On the Poetry of the Eastern Nations.
II. On the Arts, commonly called Imitative.
Atque haurire, juvatque novos decerpere flores. Lucr.
THE SECOND EDITION.
LONDON:
Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols;
For N. CONANT (Successor to Mr. WHISTON),
in Fleet Street.
M DCC LXXVII.