Miscellanies in Prose and Verse [T39452] [ecco]

DMI number:

1637

Publication Date:

1766

ESTC number:

T39452

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW110256289

Shelfmark:

ECCO - BOD

Full Title:

MISCELLANIES, | IN | PROSE | AND | VERSE. | [rule] | By Mrs. CATHERINE JEMMAT, | Daughter of the late Admiral YEO, of PLYMOUTH, | AND | AUTHOR of her own MEMOIRS. | [rule] | [ornament] | [double rule] | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. | [short rule] | MDCCLXVI.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Miscellaneous collection, Collection of occasional pieces, and Subscription Miscellany

Format:

Quarto

Pagination:

[11], 1-227. Page 33 follows 28.

Comments:

ODNB states: '[Jemmat] explains in her introduction that the collection ‘does not consist wholly of originals’, and includes pieces by friends as well as some previously published material. Modern scholars have been reluctant to ascribe any sections of the Miscellanies to Jemmat herself.'

Related Miscellanies

Title:

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

Publication Date:

1771

ESTC No:

T39453

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.

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First Line:

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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First Line:

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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First Line:

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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First Line:

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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First Line:

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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First Line:

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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First Line:

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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First Line:

To Caelia dear queen of May

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p.54

Poem Title:

To Caelia.

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First Line:

For this bold task ere on the stage we tread

Page No:

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

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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

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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

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p.115

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

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.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

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p.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.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.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

Page No:

p.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

Page No:

pp.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.132

Poem Title:

An Epigram.

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First Line:

The traitor Judas stands upon record

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p.140

Poem Title:

Epigram.

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First Line:

Though Dunstan the elder more pious than civil

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p.140

Poem Title:

Another.

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First Line:

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

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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

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p.144

Poem Title:

To Hibernia, represented leaning on her Harp.

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First Line:

When Athens mistress of the world appeared

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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

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p.147

Poem Title:

A Fragment, from a polite Poetical Assembly.

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First Line:

Here native worth and honest love of good

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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

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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

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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

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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

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pp.156-158

Poem Title:

To Mr. Mason, on his Elfrida.

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Of excellent natural abilities well improved

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p.156

Poem Title:

Epitaph on a Clergyman.

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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

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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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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

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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

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pp.166-167

Poem Title:

The Batchelor's Choice. A Song.

Attribution:

Strephon.

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First Line:

If words mellifluent ever charmed the ear

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p.167

Poem Title:

The British Tully.

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First Line:

Gentle cupid god of love

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p.168

Poem Title:

On Chloe's Tooth-Ach.

Attribution:

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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First Line:

Discord was prowling through the land

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p.173

Poem Title:

To the Marquis of Harington.

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If ever with justice man complained

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p.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.175-176

Poem Title:

On Mr. Woodward's Performance.

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First Line:

Careless by name and careless by nature

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pp.176-177

Poem Title:

On Miss Fanny Careless.

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The envious all concur to aim

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pp.178-179

Poem Title:

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

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Widows who must have second dears

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pp.179-180

Poem Title:

On Lady Juverna's last Marriage.

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In silent wonder sunk in rapture bound

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pp.181-183

Poem Title:

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

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First Line:

When graceful Woffington adorns the scene

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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

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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 Class.

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If fools as they say spring from parents of sense

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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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p.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

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pp.225-227

Poem Title:

A Description of a Manner of Life.

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