Miscellanies in Prose and Verse [2nd edn] [T39453] (ecco)

DMI number:

1638

Publication Date:

1771

ESTC number:

T39453

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW110942693

Shelfmark:

ECCO - BOD

Full Title:

MISCELLANIES, | IN | PROSE AND VERSE. | By Mrs. CATHERINE JEMMAT, | Daughter of the late Admiral YEO, of PLYMOUTH, | AND | AUTHOR of her own MEMOIRS. | LONDON: | PRINTED IN THE YEAR MDCCLXXI.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Miscellaneous collection, Collection of occasional pieces, and Subscription Miscellany

Format:

Quarto

Pagination:

[12], 1-236. 119 mispaginated as 116; 125-132 as 225-232; 33 follows 28; 175 follows 172.

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Title:

Miscellanies in Prose and Verse [T39452] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1766

ESTC No:

T39452

Volume:

None

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Related People

Editor:

Catherine Jemmat

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Where shall the trembling muse begin her flight

Page No:

pp.1-4

Poem Title:

Beauty and Taste, inscribed to Her Grace the Duchess of Hamilton and Argyle.

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Celestial charity with ray divine

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pp.5-6

Poem Title:

On a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland visiting the Lying-Inn Hospital there.

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First Line:

No more revile Hibernia's warlike story

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p.6

Poem Title:

On the Success of Major-General Johnson in America.

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First Line:

Britons attend Ierne mind the call

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p.7

Poem Title:

On the late Earthquakes in England and Ireland.

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First Line:

While some in studied elegance of verse

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pp.8-10

Poem Title:

An Apology for declining the melancholy Task of a Poem on the Death of his Serene Highness the Stadtholder.

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First Line:

Tis merit calls awake the grateful lyre

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pp.10-12

Poem Title:

On seeing Mr. Mossop perform.

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With sympathetic warmth to feel the throws

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pp.12-13

Poem Title:

A Prologue at a Benefit Play for an Hospital.

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Oh heavenly born in deepest cells

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pp.14-16

Poem Title:

Ode on Science.

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First Line:

All hail omnipotence whose outstretched arm

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pp.17-18

Poem Title:

A Morning Reflection.

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First Line:

Welcome once more to cheerful light to life

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pp.19-20

Poem Title:

On the Recovery of the Right Honourable Lord Viscount MOLESWORTH, from his Illness, in the Year 1755.

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First Line:

Thou thought revealing charm in silence shown

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pp.21-22

Poem Title:

On the Invention of Letters and the Utility of the Press.

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Tis all that goodness left behind can show

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pp.23-26

Poem Title:

On hearing the Design of erecting a Monument to the Memory of Thomas Prior, Esq; by Subscription, in the Year 1751.

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Once more my lord the muse would tune her lays

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pp.26-34

Poem Title:

On the Return of the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Charlemont, from his Travels, to Ireland, in the Year 1755.

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First Line:

A chilling damp invades my trembling heart

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pp.34-37

Poem Title:

An Elegy on the much lamented Death of the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man.

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By a Gentlewoman of the Isle of Man, in the Year 1755.

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First Line:

Shall fame this blemish to the world display

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pp.38-39

Poem Title:

On the Report of Mr. Sheridan's giving a Benefit-Play towards defraying the Expence of Dr. Swift's Monument, in the Year 1752.

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Since now thy patriot sons Ierne claim

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pp.41-42

Poem Title:

The Test, in the Year 1754.

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The rule your candour recommends

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pp.42-44

Poem Title:

An Answer to the Test.

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First Line:

Fair Venus the goddess of beauty and love

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pp.44-46

Poem Title:

Some Stanzas from a famous Club.

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Like mine or some dull brother's rhymes

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pp.47-48

Poem Title:

The Changes.

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To Caelia dear queen of May

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p.54

Poem Title:

To Caelia.

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For this bold task ere on the stage we tread

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pp.55-57

Poem Title:

Prologue, first Night, Spoken by a Young Gentleman in the Character of Cato.

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First Line:

How different from that Niobe whose pride

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p.55

Poem Title:

Ovid's Description of Niobe, when she heard of the Death of her Children, and ran to find their dead Bodies.

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First Line:

Welcome fair ladies to this night's repast

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p.57

Poem Title:

Prologue, second Night, Spoken by Marcia.

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First Line:

My father and mother what ails em

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pp.58-62

Poem Title:

The Rural Lass.

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First Line:

The god of wine and god of love

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pp.67-70

Poem Title:

The Contention.

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First Line:

A hare did to a garden get

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pp.70-72

Poem Title:

The Farmer and the Hare. A Tale.

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First Line:

Hail sweet retirement wisdom's peaceful seat

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pp.72-81

Poem Title:

Retirement. An Ode.

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First Line:

What has that heart so wild so roving

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p.81

Poem Title:

Verses, Written to a Friend on his Marriage.

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First Line:

I'll tell thee friend that heart so roving

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pp.82-83

Poem Title:

The Reply.

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First Line:

Tell me what genius did the art invent

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pp.83-84

Poem Title:

Question, on the Art of Writing.

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First Line:

Severus fumbler on the grey goose quill

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p.84

Poem Title:

Epigram.

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First Line:

Interred beneath lies one who never bowed

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p.85

Poem Title:

To the Memory of W. D. Esq;

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First Line:

Kind fortune as the wheel went round

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p.85

Poem Title:

Occasioned by reading of the Death of Sir Charles Amiand Pawlet, the Day his Ticket, No. 40,718, was drawn the Ten Thousand Pound Prize.

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First Line:

How vain is man how fluttering are his joys

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pp.86-87

Poem Title:

Reflections on the Uncertainty of all Sublunary Enjoyments.

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First Line:

Attend ye fathers not too rashly run

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pp.88-90

Poem Title:

Judith's speech to the Elders of Israel, Paraphrased.

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First Line:

Who shall describe the virtues of his mind

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

Epitaph on a very Worthy Divine.

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First Line:

Thou fairest excellence of heaven

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pp.91-92

Poem Title:

To Celia.

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First Line:

Lest that the feeble heart of suffering man

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pp.92-95

Poem Title:

On Patience.

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First Line:

Happy the man to whom kind heaven

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pp.95-100

Poem Title:

Rural Happiness.

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First Line:

As love's bright queen with pleasing wonder stood

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

The Mistake.

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First Line:

Whilst others praise in pompous rhyme

Page No:

pp.109-114

Poem Title:

A Description of a Cottage, rebuilt and fitted up in a Rustic Taste, by a Noble Lord.

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First Line:

There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

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Can storied urn or animated bust

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p.118

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Now brag the beauteous sex controls

Page No:

p.116 [i.e. 119]

Poem Title:

An Encomium on the Game of Brag.

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First Line:

Says the mother ah Kitty these frolics I said

Page No:

p.225 [i.e. 125]

Poem Title:

Kitty and her Mamma; or, the New Style.

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First Line:

Quo the last to the first with an insolent scoff

Page No:

p.226 [i.e. 126]

Poem Title:

The British pickled Herring and Anchovy.

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First Line:

Bless o my soul the lord exceeding awful

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p.227-230 [i.e. 127-130]

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on the 104th Psalm, in Imitation of Milton's Style.

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First Line:

What Marlay gone o death how do I grudge

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p.230 [i.e. 130]

Poem Title:

On the Death of the Right Hon. Thomas Marlay, Esq;

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First Line:

The comic muse once more shall smile elate

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pp.231-232 [i.e. 131-132]

Poem Title:

To Thomas Sheridan, Esq; on his performing the Part of Archer.

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First Line:

Three times I took for better and for worse

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p.232 [i.e. 132]

Poem Title:

An Epigram.

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First Line:

The traitor Judas stands upon record

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

Epigram.

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Though Dunstan the elder more pious than civil

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p.140

Poem Title:

Another.

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Hail sacred art thou gift of heaven designed

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pp.141-142

Poem Title:

A Poem on the Art of Printing.

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First Line:

Let joyful heirs in mock procession flow

Page No:

pp.142-143

Poem Title:

To a young Gentleman on the Death of his Father.

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First Line:

Fear not Hibernia Dorset never will dart

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

To Hibernia, represented leaning on her Harp.

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First Line:

When Athens mistress of the world appeared

Page No:

pp.144-146

Poem Title:

Prologue, spoken by Mrs. Woffington, in the Character of the Tragic Muse.

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First Line:

To make the villa more delightful

Page No:

p.147

Poem Title:

A Fragment, from a polite Poetical Assembly.

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Here native worth and honest love of good

Page No:

pp.148-149

Poem Title:

On the Death of a Promising Young Gentleman.

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First Line:

To sovereign Jove what shall I pray

Page No:

pp.149-150

Poem Title:

An Ode presented to a Nobleman on his Birth-Day.

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First Line:

Why bleeds my heart these drops of woe

Page No:

pp.150-152

Poem Title:

On Reading an Article in a News-Paper.

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First Line:

Returned from martial toil to native land

Page No:

pp.152-154

Poem Title:

On Rear-Admiral Warren being presented with the Freedom of the City of Dublin.

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First Line:

Come Abram's sons from every quarter come

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

A Call to the Jews.

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First Line:

That famed cross block at which the Jews did stumble

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

Translated.

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First Line:

Hence livid envy murkiest fiend of hell

Page No:

pp.156-158

Poem Title:

To Mr. Mason, on his Elfrida.

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Of excellent natural abilities well improved

Page No:

p.156

Poem Title:

Epitaph on a Clergyman.

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First Line:

Old B the valiant cock stout stood the fight

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p.158

Poem Title:

The following Epigram on the two Betas (or B and B) written Extempore.

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First Line:

The Gaul in tactics long the palm has bore

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p.159

Poem Title:

On General Blakeney's Defence of Fort St. Philip.

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First Line:

Love summoned Collin to his court

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p.160

Poem Title:

Love and Prudence.

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First Line:

At this fair shrine let not a tear be shed

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

To the Memory of Mrs. Susanna Mason, Daughter of Sir John Mason, Knight, after a Life of exemplary Piety.

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First Line:

A statesman dead the muses now must mourn

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p.162

Poem Title:

On Mr. Pelham's Death.

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First Line:

Heedless the great and helpless are the small

Page No:

p.162

Poem Title:

An Epigram, as old as the Reign of Henry IV.

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First Line:

Though Britain's genius hung her drooping head

Page No:

pp.163-164

Poem Title:

On Captain James Cornwall.

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By the Right Hon. Sir George Lyttleton, Bart.

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George Lyttelton

First Line:

Niger with treachery lies and spite

Page No:

pp.164-165

Poem Title:

The Revenge, an Epigram.

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While Blakeney from Minorca's thundering towers

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p.165

Poem Title:

[no title]

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By the Reverend Mr. Pullein.

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Samuel Pullen [Pullein]

First Line:

I have seriously weighed it and find it is just

Page No:

pp.166-167

Poem Title:

The Batchelor's Choice. A Song.

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Strephon.

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First Line:

If words mellifluent ever charmed the ear

Page No:

p.167

Poem Title:

The British Tully.

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Gentle cupid god of love

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p.168

Poem Title:

On Chloe's Tooth-Ach.

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Alexis.

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First Line:

Unused to kneel untrained to arts of woe

Page No:

pp.169-171

Poem Title:

Prologue to the Tragedy of Cato.

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First Line:

P-tt-y persist in conquering still

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p.171

Poem Title:

Wrote by a Gentleman, extempore, on hearing a celebrated Beauty blamed by some of her own Sex for her Sprightliness.

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Read Tickel's name and gently tread the clay

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p.172

Poem Title:

Inscription on the Monument of Thomas Tickel, Esq;

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Discord was prowling through the land

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p.175 [i.e. 173]

Poem Title:

To the Marquis of Harington.

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If ever with justice man complained

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p.176 [i.e. 174]

Poem Title:

On the Death of a Young Gentleman.

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The ladies in clusters to Woodward repair

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pp.177-178 [i.e. 175-176]

Poem Title:

On Mr. Woodward's Performance.

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Careless by name and careless by nature

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pp.178-177 [i.e. 176-177]

Poem Title:

On Miss Fanny Careless.

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The envious all concur to aim

Page No:

pp.178-179

Poem Title:

On Hans Ballie, Esq; of the City of Dublin.

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Widows who must have second dears

Page No:

pp.179-180

Poem Title:

On Lady Juverna's last Marriage.

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In silent wonder sunk in rapture bound

Page No:

pp.181-183

Poem Title:

To the inimitable Mrs. Woffington, on seeing her in several Characters.

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When graceful Woffington adorns the scene

Page No:

pp.183-184

Poem Title:

Addressed to Mrs. Woffington.

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The season closed your reign expired

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pp.186-187

Poem Title:

To Mr. Sowden, on the close of the Year.

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Tonight your bard salutes his native plains

Page No:

pp.188-189

Poem Title:

A Prologue to Jones's Essex. Spoken by Mr. Sowden.

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Music that charms and elevates the soul

Page No:

pp.190-191

Poem Title:

On Alexander's Feast being performed for a distressed Family.

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But sing o muse the swain the happy swain

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pp.191-194

Poem Title:

Rural Life, in a high Claass [sic].

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If fools as they say spring from parents of sense

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

On the Marriage of a handsome Couple.

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Ierne wipe the falling tear away

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p.195

Poem Title:

Upon the Arrival in Dublin of the Marquis of Hartington, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

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As once assembled in the Elysian plains

Page No:

pp.196-198

Poem Title:

On seeing Mr. Barry perform the Parts of Othello, Romeo, Jaffier, and Castalio.

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Ye coxcombs and beaux and ye grave wiser things

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pp.199-200

Poem Title:

A Song.

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Ye beaux and ye bloods and ye fierce looking things

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pp.201-204

Poem Title:

Another, Reversed, and applied to the Men, in Vindication of the Ladies.

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O happy he happiest of mortal men

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pp.204-205

Poem Title:

The Farmer.

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Ye matchless fair who grace the British isle

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pp.206-208

Poem Title:

Advice to the Ladies. On reading the Story of Iphis and Anaxarete, in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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Attend ye fair while briefly I relate

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pp.208-210

Poem Title:

A Caution to the Ladies.

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That god who rules supreme over heaven and earth

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pp.210-211

Poem Title:

An Idea of God and his Power. Translated from the French of Monsieur Racine's Tragedy of Esther.

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I pass the silent rural hour

Page No:

pp.226-228

Poem Title:

A Description of a Manner of Life.

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Sincerity what are thy views

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p.229

Poem Title:

Sincerity. A Poem.

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Might I inquire the reasons of my fate

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pp.230-232

Poem Title:

Written for a gentlewoman in distress. To her Grace the Dutchess of S-.

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Hither amongst the crowds that shun

Page No:

pp.232-233

Poem Title:

Written, upon the Rocks at Tunbridge.

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When Athens was for arts and arms renowned

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

Written for a young gentleman, and spoken by him at school, at a public examination for victors.

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Ye headless fair who pass the livelong day

Page No:

pp.234-236

Poem Title:

Occasion'd by reading some Memoirs. Inscribed to the Countess of Hertford.

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