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...invocation to Fame in the introduction to one of the books into which the novel was divided. ' Do thou fill my ravished fancy with the hopes of charming ages yet to come. Teach me not only to foresee, but to enjoy, nay, even to feed on future praise. Comfort me by a solemn...

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...Hebrus did produce. Thee, whom M<eonia2 educated, whom Mantua3 charm'd, and who, on that fair Hill4 which overlooks the proud Metropolis of Britain, satst,...Sophia, she reads the real Worth which once existed in my Charlotte,* shall, from her sympathetic Breast, send forth the heaving Sigh. Do thou teach me not...

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...from directly invoking Milton's muse: "Thee, whom Maeonia educated, whom Mantua charm'd, and who, on that fair Hill which overlooks the proud Metropolis...with thy Milton, sweetly tuning the Heroic lyre...." (XIII, i). The narrator even seems to consider his theme of equal epic stature with that of the Odyssey...