Miscellanies. The last volume [ECCO] [T173801]

DMI number:

621

Publication Date:

1733

ESTC number:

T173801

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW117055510

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Duodecimo

Comments:

NOTES: There are 4 variants of this book published in 1733: T229756, T202849, T173801, T222869. The differences between these are unclear from ESTC. "Also issued as ’Miscellanies. The third volume.’, printed for Benj. Motte, 1732, with a different titlepage and one less leaf of advertisements. Text continuous despite pagination" (ESTC). TITLE-PAGE: MISCELLANIES. | [rule] | THE | LAST VOLUME. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for BENJAMIN MOTTE, at | the [i]Middle-Temple-Gate[/i], [i]Fleetstreet[/i]. | MDCCXXXIII. HALF-TITLE: MISCELLANIES | IN | VERSE. PAGINATION: ??? CONTENTS: Preface (8pp.) signed by Pope and Swift and dated 'Twickenham, May 27, 1727'; 'Treatise of the Art of Sinking in Poetry' pp.[12]-90; 'Contents' to the preceding treatise (2pp.); Collection of 'Miscellanies in Verse' pp.[94]-333; contents to preceding miscellany (3pp.). REFERENCES: Teerink-Scouten, 27 (3b). Bibliographical notes in E. L. Steeves, 'The art of sinking in poetry: a critical edition', New York 1952 (facs). Case 344(3)(a).

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Author:

Jonathan Swift

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'By Jonathan Swift' ESTC

Publisher:

Benjamin Motte

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The shepherds and the nymphs were seen

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pp.95-132

Poem Title:

Cadenus and Vanessa. Written Anno 1713.

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In ancient times as story tells

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pp.132-140

Poem Title:

Baucis and Philemon. Imitated from the Eighth Book of Ovid

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Careful observers may foretell the hour

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pp.140-143

Poem Title:

A Description of a City Shower. In Imitation of Virgil's Georg.

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Now hardly here and there an hackney coach

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pp.143-144

Poem Title:

A Description of the Morning.

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Harley the nation's great support

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pp.145-152

Poem Title:

Horace, Epistle VII. Book I. imitated and addressed to the Earl of Oxford, in the Year 1713.

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I often wished that I had clear

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pp.152-157

Poem Title:

Horace, Lib. 2. Sat. 6. Part of it imitated.

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Parson these things in thy possessing

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pp.158-159

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The Happy Life of a Countrey [sic] Parson. In Imitation of Martial.

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Women tho nat sans leacherie

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pp.159-160

Poem Title:

A Tale of Chaucer, lately found in an old Manuscript.

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In every town where Thamis rolls his tide

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pp.161-164

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The Alley. An Imitation of Spencer [sic].

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In Yorkshire dwelt a sober yeoman

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pp.164-165

Poem Title:

The Capon's Tale, to a Lady who father'd her Lampoons upon her Acquaintance.

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Peruse my leaves through every part

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pp.166-167

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Verses wrote on a Lady's Ivory Table-Book.

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Humbly sheweth | That I went to warm my self in Lady Betty's chamber because I was cold

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pp.167-173

Poem Title:

To their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland. The humble Petition of Frances Harris, Who must starve, and die a Maid if it miscarries.

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Once on a time as old stories rehearse

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pp.174-176

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Lady B-- B-- finding in the Author's Room some Verses unfinished, underwrit a Stanza of her own, with Raillery upon him, which gave Occasion to this Ballad.

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In times of old when time was young

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pp.176-182

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V--'s House. Built from the Ruins of Whitehall that was Burnt.

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When Mother Clud had rose from play

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pp.182-184

Poem Title:

The History of V--'s House.

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The rod was but a harmless wand

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pp.184-188

Poem Title:

The Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician's Rod.

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Atlas we read in ancient song

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pp.188-189

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Atlas, or the Minister of State; to the Lord Treasurer Oxford.

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As mastiff dogs in modern phrase are

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pp.189-192

Poem Title:

The Description of a Salamander. Out of Pliny's Nat. Hist. lib. 10. c. 67. and lib. 29. c. 4.

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Ere bribes convince you whom to choose

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pp.193-194

Poem Title:

The Elephant: or, The Parliament Man; written many Years since. Taken from Coke's Institutes.

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Well tis as Bickerstaff has guessed

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pp.195-199

Poem Title:

An Elegy on the supposed Death of Partridge the Almanack Maker.

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Here five foot deep lies on his back

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pp.199-200

Poem Title:

The Epitaph.

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Some Colinaeus praise some Bleau

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pp.200-201

Poem Title:

Verses to be prefix'd before Bernard Lintot's New Miscellany.

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How much egregious Moore are we

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pp.202-204

Poem Title:

To Mr. John Moore, Author of the Celebrated Worm-Powder.

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Jove called before him the other day

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pp.204-208

Poem Title:

Verses occasion'd by an &c. at the End of Mr. D'Urfy's Name in the Title to one of his Plays

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Grown old in rhyme twere barbarous to discard

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pp.208-209

Poem Title:

Prologue, design'd for Mr. Durfy's last Play.

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Authors are judged by strange capricious rules

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pp.210-212

Poem Title:

Prologue to the three Hours after Marriage.

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Ye lords and commons men of wit

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pp.212-216

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Sandys's Ghost: Or a proper new Ballad on the new Ovid's Metamorphosis: as it was intended to be translated by Persons of Quality.

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Close to the best known author Umbra sits

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pp.216-217

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Umbra.

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If meagre Gildon draws his venal quill

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pp.217-220

Poem Title:

Fragment of a Satire.

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When simple Macer now of high renown

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pp.220-221

Poem Title:

Macer.

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Sylvia my heart in wondrous wise alarmed

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pp.222-223

Poem Title:

Sylvia, a Fragment.

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Though Artimesia talks by fits

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pp.223-224

Poem Title:

Artimesia.

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Phryne had talents for mankind

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pp.224-225

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Phryne.

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When Cupid did his grandsire Jove entreat

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pp.225-226

Poem Title:

On Mrs. Biddy Floyd.

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Phoebus now shortening every shade

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pp.226-229

Poem Title:

Apollo Outwitted. To the Honourable Mrs. Finch, under her Name of Ardelia.

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Stella this day is thirty four

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p.230

Poem Title:

Stella's Birth-Day. 1718.

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All travellers at first incline

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pp.231-233

Poem Title:

Stella's Birth Day. 1720.

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Resolved my annual verse to pay

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pp.233-237

Poem Title:

Stella's Birth-Day. A great Bottle of Wine, long buried, being that Day dug up. 1722.

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As when a beauteous nymph decays

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pp.237-239

Poem Title:

Stella's Birth-Day. 1724.

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Oh be thou blessed with all that heaven can send

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pp.240-241

Poem Title:

To Mrs M.B. sent on her Birth-Day. June 15.

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I said to my heart between sleeping and waking

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pp.241-242

Poem Title:

Song.

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By a Person of Quality.

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Of all the girls that ever were seen

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pp.243-245

Poem Title:

Ballad.

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The longitude missed on

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pp.245-246

Poem Title:

Ode for Musick on the Longitude.

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Strange all this difference should be

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p.246

Poem Title:

Epigram on the Feuds about Handel and Bononcini.

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So bright is thy beauty so charming thy song

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p.247

Poem Title:

On Mrs. T--s.

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Two or three visits and two or three bows

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pp.247-248

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Two or Three; or a Receipt to make a Cuckold.

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While maudlin whigs deplored their Cato's fate

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p.248

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On a Lady who P--st at the Tragedy of Cato; occasioned by an Epigram on a Lady who wept at it.

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As Thomas was cudgelled one day by his wife

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pp.249-250

Poem Title:

Epigram.

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When Israel's daughters mourned their past offences

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p.249

Poem Title:

Epigram, in a Maid of Honour's Prayer-Book.

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Now Europe's balanced neither side prevails

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p.250

Poem Title:

The Balance of Europe.

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Disdain not Snow my humble verse to hear

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pp.251-254

Poem Title:

A Panegyrical Epistle to Mr. Thomas Snow, Goldsmith near Temple-Bar; Occasion'd by his Buying and Selling the Third South-Sea Subscriptions, taken in by the Directors at a Thousand per Cent.

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Ye wise philosophers explain

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pp.255-263

Poem Title:

The South-Sea. 1721.

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When as corruption hence did go

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pp.263-266

Poem Title:

A Ballad on Quadrille.

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Says my uncle I pray you discover

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pp.266-269

Poem Title:

Molly Mog: Or, the Fair Maid of the Inn.

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My passion is as mustard strong

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pp.269-273

Poem Title:

A new Song of new Similies.

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Ye gallants of Newgate whose fingers are nice

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pp.273-276

Poem Title:

Newgate's Garland: Being a new Ballad, shewing how Mr. Jonathan Wild's Throat was cut from Ear to Ear with a Pen-knife, by Mr. Blake, alias Blueskin, the bold Highwayman, as he stood at his Tryal in the Old-Baily. 1725.

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When first the squire and tinker Wood

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pp.277-280

Poem Title:

Prometheus. On Wood the Patentee's Irish Half-Pence.

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With every lady in the land

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pp.280-281

Poem Title:

Strephon and Flavia.

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This day the year I dare not tell

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pp.281-283

Poem Title:

Corinna.

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How vain are mortal man's endeavours

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pp.283-285

Poem Title:

The Quidnuncki's: A Tale. Occasion'd by the Death of the Duke Regent of France.

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In fable all things hold discourse

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pp.285-287

Poem Title:

Ay and No: A Fable.

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Desponding Phyllis was endued

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pp.287-291

Poem Title:

Phyllis: or the Progress of Love.

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The farmer's goose who in the stubble

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pp.291-293

Poem Title:

The Progress of Poetry.

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When first Diana leaves her bed

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pp.293-297

Poem Title:

The Progress of Beauty.

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From Venus born thy beauty shows

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pp.297-301

Poem Title:

Pethox the Great.

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Soon as Glumdalclitch missed her pleasing care

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pp.302-305

Poem Title:

The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch for the Loss of Grildrig. A Pastoral.

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Welcome thrice welcome to thy native place

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pp.306-311

Poem Title:

Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver.

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In amaze

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pp.311-313

Poem Title:

To Quinbus Flestrin, the Man-Mountain. A Lilliputian Ode.

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Echo I ween will in the woods reply

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pp.313-315

Poem Title:

A Gentle Echo on Woman. In the Dorick Manner.

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Who dares affirm this is no pious age

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pp.316-318

Poem Title:

Epilogue to a Play, for the Benefit of the Weavers in Ireland.

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As when a lofty pile is raised

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pp.318-324

Poem Title:

To Stella, who collected and transcribed his Poems.

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Beneath this verdant hillock lies

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p.318

Poem Title:

Epitaph on a Miser.

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Those dreams that on the silent night intrude

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pp.324-325

Poem Title:

On Dreams, an Imitation of Petronius.

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Pallas observing Stella's wit

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pp.326-330

Poem Title:

To Stella, Visiting me in my Sickness, October, 1727.

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This day whatever the fates decree

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pp.330-333

Poem Title:

Stella's Birth-Day, March 13. 1726/7.

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