The entertainer; containing great variety of instructive entertainment [Vol II] [T100454]

DMI number:

1037

Publication Date:

1766

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

T100454

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW124634439

Shelfmark:

BL - 12354.aa.27

Full Title:

THE | ENTERTAINER; | Containing great Variety of | Instructive Entertainment, | FOR | Persons of every Age, Rank, or Degree. | [rule] | Collected by CHARLES TELL-TRUTH. | [rule] | In TWO VOLUMES. | [rule] | VOL. II. | [double rule] | LONDON: | Printed for JAMES HENRY, in the [i] Strand [/i]. | M,DCC,LXVI.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Miscellaneous collection and Collection including prose

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

[6]pp; [3]-232pp.

Bibliographic details:

Vol.1 has direction line "Vol. V", vol.2, "Vol. VI" (ESTC)

Comments:

A number of poems are printed in this collection as 'composite poems' i.e. where two or more poems are printed without a break. On most occasions a long dash is used in the miscellany to signal the end of one poem and the beginning of the next. Where this is the case, the poems have been entered as separate items in the index. CONTENTS: 'Contents', [6]pp.

Related Miscellanies

Title:

The entertainer; containing great variety of instructive entertainment [Vol I] [T100454]

Publication Date:

1766

ESTC No:

T100454

Volume:

1 of 2

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Related People

Publisher:

James Henry

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Ye virgin muses tune the lyre

Page No:

pp.11-12

Poem Title:

To the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Baron Bowes, on his Return to Ireland.

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First Line:

Now justice reigns and vindicates her own

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p.12

Poem Title:

On the Chief Baron's being appointed Lord Chancellor, 1757.

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First Line:

Where shall perplexed mortals fly to find

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pp.23-25

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

If when you come to men's estate

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pp.43-44

Poem Title:

Advice to the children of great Men.

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First Line:

By nature savage till instructive art

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pp.47-48

Poem Title:

The Progress of Learning.

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First Line:

Science thou fair effusive ray

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pp.49-52

Poem Title:

Poem on Science

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First Line:

Thrice happy few that wisely here attend

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p.52

Poem Title:

Poem on Science

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First Line:

Now night retires and glorious breaks the day

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pp.55-57

Poem Title:

A Poem on the first Arrival of his Majesty King George the first into England.

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First Line:

See Britain's king upon his awful throne

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p.58

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

What direful woe hangs over the land

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pp.58-59

Poem Title:

On the Death of King George the second.

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First Line:

Britannia's sons might well triumphant sing

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pp.59-62

Poem Title:

A Poem on the Coronation of his Majesty King George the third, which was Sep. 22, 1761. His Accession to the Throne was Oct. 25, 1760.

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First Line:

Replete with glory and extent of days

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p.59

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Lord of the world and paradise his throne

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p.63

Poem Title:

On his Majesty's Marriage

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First Line:

Awful hero Marlborough rise

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pp.66-68

Poem Title:

On his late Grace the Duke of Marlborough, when in the Decline of Life, and dozing in a melancholy posture on his Couch.

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First Line:

He is the assertor of liberty

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p.66

Poem Title:

[no title]

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While thousands greet you on the British shore

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pp.68-69

Poem Title:

To his Excellency Lieutenant-General Bland, at his Arrival in Dublin, from his Government in Gibralter.

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Swift as his fame over all the world he flies

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pp.69-70

Poem Title:

Another Poem on his Grace the late Duke of Marlborough.

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First Line:

Rouse Haddock rouse from thy inglorious sleep

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pp.79-81

Poem Title:

To Admiral Haddock on the Successes of Admiral Vernon, 1740.

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First Line:

Vernon taking Porto Bello

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p.81

Poem Title:

On Admiral Vernon

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First Line:

Vernon thou terror of the main

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p.81

Poem Title:

Advice to Admiral Vernon, 1740.

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First Line:

To crush our foes three naval heroes born

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p.82

Poem Title:

On Admiral Vernon's Success in America. An Epigram.

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First Line:

Vernon proceed in humbling Spain

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p.82

Poem Title:

The Advice to Admiral Vernon reversed, 1740.

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First Line:

My best companion and my dearest friend

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p.83

Poem Title:

On the Death of a Friend.

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First Line:

Thy gift dear Chloe when thy gift I see

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pp.83-84

Poem Title:

To a Lady on her making a Present of a Looking-glass.

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First Line:

When conquering death shall ravish from your eyes

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p.83

Poem Title:

These lines spoke by a young Lady on seeing his Grace the Duke of Argyle, 1740.

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Throned on the lofty mountains

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pp.84-86

Poem Title:

Poem on a late Battle in Germany, 1760.

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First Line:

Long has sad Albion mourned her coward race

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pp.86-87

Poem Title:

On our many glorious and happy Victories, 1760.

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First Line:

If nobly fighting in a nation's cause

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p.88

Poem Title:

To the Memory of General Wolfe.

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First Line:

Great without fault and without rashness brave

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p.91

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

Here intombed a soldier lies

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p.91

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

Raise to his memory and deathless name

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pp.91-93

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

O thou within whose tender blooming breast

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pp.93-94

Poem Title:

To a young Lady, an ingenious writer of several Pieces.

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First Line:

Let not the flattering voice of love

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p.101

Poem Title:

To a Young Lady

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First Line:

Miss Molly a famed toast was fair and young

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pp.102-104

Poem Title:

A Medicine to cure scolding Wives

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First Line:

But now suppose we may one woman find

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pp.104-105

Poem Title:

A Medicine to cure scolding Wives.

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First Line:

Come lovely gentle peace of mind

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p.105

Poem Title:

A Medicine to cure scolding Wives.

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First Line:

When my dear little linnet

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p.110

Poem Title:

The Cobler's Whistling Linnet.

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First Line:

The husband thus reproved his wife

Page No:

pp.110-111

Poem Title:

The Cobler's Whistling Linnet.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

I'll live no more single but get me a wife

Page No:

pp.111-112

Poem Title:

On Variety

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First Line:

In marriage are two happy things allowed

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p.112

Poem Title:

Spoke by a Gentleman who was most grievously perplexed with a Scolding Wife.

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First Line:

Women to cards may be compared we play

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p.112

Poem Title:

Spoke by a Gentleman who was most grievously perplexed with a Scolding Wife.

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First Line:

A mother who vast pleasure finds

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pp.113-114

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

Conversing with your sprightly boys

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pp.114-116

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

A gardener of peculiar taste

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pp.116-117

Poem Title:

Of conferring favours on ungrateful persons, a Fable.

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First Line:

Unto thee wisdom to thy sacred shade

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pp.118-119

Poem Title:

The well disposed Youth's desire of wisdom

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First Line:

Hail evening the skies how calm how bright

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pp.119-120

Poem Title:

An Evening Meditation

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First Line:

The summer's morn unveils her eyes

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pp.120-121

Poem Title:

A Poem on the Beauties of Summer

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First Line:

Through all the various shifting scene

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pp.122-123

Poem Title:

Of Man's dependance on his Creator

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First Line:

Whether in Dublin I reside

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p.125

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

Nor ivory nor Indian stuff

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pp.130-131

Poem Title:

Against Coveteousness

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First Line:

Is Lawson dead lie envy in the grave

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pp.140-143

Poem Title:

On the Death of the late Reverend Doctor Lawson, who was remarkable for preaching excellent charity sermons, and consequently exciting liberality.

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First Line:

Now Hervey's dead and will no muse proclaim

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pp.143-144

Poem Title:

On the Reverend Mr. Hervey, his Meditation on the Tombs; the Flower Garden and the Starry Heavens.

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First Line:

Hail source of transport ever new

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pp.145-146

Poem Title:

A Poem on Benevolence.

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First Line:

How blessed with whom though lowly born

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pp.146-147

Poem Title:

A Poem on Benevolence.

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First Line:

O may the boundless wish to bless

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p.147

Poem Title:

A Poem on Benevolence.

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First Line:

Be good with spirit and with parts be just

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p.148

Poem Title:

A Father's Advice to his Son.

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First Line:

Children like tender oziers take the bow

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p.152

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Juvenal

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First Line:

You ask me what is honour I know not

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pp.153-154

Poem Title:

On being asked what is honour

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First Line:

Remote from city noise and towns alarms

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pp.162-164

Poem Title:

A Poem on a Country Life.

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Sure art and nature no where else can shew

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p.164

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

In silent characters their minds revealed

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pp.165-166

Poem Title:

These twenty seven Lines on Writing, has been left out in the 4th Volume.

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First Line:

To mention God no man has just pretence

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

A Rebuke to common Swearers.

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First Line:

Blest be the man his memory at least

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p.166

Poem Title:

These twenty seven Lines on Writing, has been left out in the 4th Volume.

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In him the favourite strokes of heaven were seen

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pp.166-167

Poem Title:

A Poem in praise of a worthy Merchant deceased, 1758.

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First Line:

In earlier times when absence interposed

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pp.169-170

Poem Title:

Of the Usefulness of the Pen.

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First Line:

Poor Buckinger at last is dead and gone

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pp.173-176

Poem Title:

A Poem on the much lamented Death of Mr. Matthew Buckinger, who resided in Drogheda about the year, 1716, being a famous little Man, without Arms or Legs.

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First Line:

Here sleeps among good christians dead

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pp.176-177

Poem Title:

The Epitaph.

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First Line:

Once on a time in sunshine weather

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pp.177-178

Poem Title:

Of Truth and Falshood.

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First Line:

God of my life this early dawn

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pp.179-180

Poem Title:

A Religious Youth's Morning Hymn.

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O son of man O creature of a day

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p.181

Poem Title:

What is Man.

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First Line:

The beauteous mind with innocence endued

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

On Innocence

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First Line:

A poor man once a judge besought

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pp.183-184

Poem Title:

On Bribery in the Reign of King Alfred, 872.

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Blind plaintiff lame defendant share

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p.184

Poem Title:

Two Beggars disputing their Right to an Oyster they had found; a Lawyer thus decides the cause.

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First Line:

For ever jarring yet for ever friends

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p.184

Poem Title:

On Lawyers.

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Careless besotted man whose baffled mind

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pp.185-188

Poem Title:

Of Careless and inconsiderate Men, &c.

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Past eight o'clock O christians meditate

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pp.189-190

Poem Title:

A Poem by a Gentleman, in Imitation of a Watchman going his Rounds.

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Death judgment heaven and hell think christians think

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p.191

Poem Title:

Wrote on the Tomb of a Clergyman.

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Whenever Solon mongst the crowd appeared

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pp.203-205

Poem Title:

A necessary Rule for Conversation, &c.

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Maecenas born of royal blood

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pp.212-213

Poem Title:

Several men have several Delights.

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Hail ever pleasing solitude

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pp.213-214

Poem Title:

On Solitude.

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First Line:

While at this solemn hour the prostrate world

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p.214

Poem Title:

On Solitude

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The sons of riot weakly sickly train

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pp.216-217

Poem Title:

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Man only from himself can suffer wrong

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pp.219-220

Poem Title:

[No title]

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Would I curse the man I hate

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p.219

Poem Title:

[No title]

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You shall swear by custom and confession

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p.221

Poem Title:

The form of the Oath on that occasion administered.

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Think not my friend that beauty lies

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p.222

Poem Title:

On true Beauty.

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Is this alas our boasted mortal's state

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pp.228-229

Poem Title:

A Poem on the Tombs of the Kings of Judea.

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First Line:

Pox of these vile distractions high and low

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p.228

Poem Title:

A Poem upon an Election for Parliament men.

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Can mortal man boast of his days

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p.229

Poem Title:

A Poem on the Tombs of the Kings of Judea.

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