Miscellanies. The last volume [T172697] [ECCO]

DMI number:

586

Publication Date:

1728

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T172697

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW116985264

Shelfmark:

ECCO -

Full Title:

MISCELLANIES. | [rule] | THE | LAST VOLUME. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for BENJAMIN MOTTE, at | the [i]Middle-Temple Gate[/i] in [i]Fleetstreet[/i], | MDCCXXVIII.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Comments:

CONTENTS: Preface pp.(iii)-xvi, 'Advertisement to the Reader' (1pp.); 'Treatise of the Art of Sinking in Poetry' pp.(4)-92; 'Contents' to the foregoing treatise (2pp.); collection of 'Miscellanies in Verse'; list of works soon to be published (1pp.); contents (2pp.). MISCELLANY GENRE: Collection of satirical verse associated with Pope and Swift. OTHER NOTES: Preface is signed 'Jonath. Swift. | Alex. Pope.' and dated 'Twickenham, May 27, 1727'. A postscript to the preface claims that this 1728 ed. adds 'two or three Pieces on parallel Subjects, written by Persons of great Distinction, our particular Friends'. In fact the additions consist of three poems attributed to Swift (pp.297-313).

References:

Teerink-Scouten 25(3a–d) and the bibliographical notes in E. L. Steeves, The art of sinking in poetry: a critical edition, New York 1952 (facs). Case 344(3)(a).

Related People

Author:

Jonathan Swift

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Absolute (100%)

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ESTC

Publisher:

Benjamin Motte

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

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'Printed for Benjamin Motte'

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The shepherds and the nymphs were seen

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pp.1-64

Poem Title:

Cadenus and Vanessa. Written Anno 1713.

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In ancient times as story tells

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pp.1-12

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.13-18

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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.19-20

Poem Title:

A Description of the Morning.

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Harley the nation's great support

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pp.21-32

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.33-41

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.42-43

Poem Title:

The Happy Life of a Country Parson. In Imitation of Martial.

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Women tho nat sans leacherie

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pp.44-45

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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.46-50

Poem Title:

The Alley. An Imitation of Spenser.

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In Yorkshire dwelt a sober yeoman

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pp.51-53

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.54-55

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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.56-64

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.65-67

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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.68-76

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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.77-80

Poem Title:

The History of V-----'s House.

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The rod was but a harmless wand

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pp.81-86

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.87-88

Poem Title:

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.89-93

Poem Title:

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

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Ere bribes convince you whom to choose

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pp.94-96

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.97-103

Poem Title:

An Elegy On the supposed Death of Partrige [sic] the Almanack-Maker.

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Here five foot deep lies on his back

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p.104

Poem Title:

The Epitaph.

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Some Colinaeus praise some Bleau

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pp.105-107

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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.108-110

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.111-116

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.117-118

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.119-121

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.122-127

Poem Title:

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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p.128

Poem Title:

Umbra.

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If meagre Gildon draws his venal quill

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pp.129-133

Poem Title:

Fragment of a Satire.

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When simple Macer now of high renown

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pp.134-135

Poem Title:

Macer.

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Sylvia my heart in wondrous wise alarmed

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pp.136-137

Poem Title:

Sylvia, A Fragment.

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Though Artimesia talks by fits

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pp.138-139

Poem Title:

Artimesia.

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Phryne had talents for mankind

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pp.140-141

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Phryne.

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When Cupid did his grandsire Jove entreat

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p.142

Poem Title:

On Mrs. Biddy Floyd.

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Phoebus now shortening every shade

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pp.143-147

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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pp.148-149

Poem Title:

Stella's Birth-Day. 1718.

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All travellers at first incline

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pp.150-153

Poem Title:

Stella's Birth-Day. 1720.

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Resolved my annual verse to pay

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pp.154-159

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.160-163

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.164-165

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.166-167

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.168-171

Poem Title:

Ballad.

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The longitude missed on

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pp.172-173

Poem Title:

Ode, for Musick, on the Longitude.

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So bright is thy beauty so charming thy song

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p.174

Poem Title:

On Mrs. T---s.

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Strange all this difference should be

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p.174

Poem Title:

Epigram on the Feuds about Handel and Bononcini.

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Two or three visits and two or three bows

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p.175

Poem Title:

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.176

Poem Title:

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

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When Israel's daughters mourned their past offences

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p.177

Poem Title:

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

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As Thomas was cudgelled one day by his wife

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p.178

Poem Title:

Epigram.

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Now Europe's balanced neither side prevails

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p.178

Poem Title:

The Balance of Europe.

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Disdain not Snow my humble verse to hear

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pp.179-184

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.185-196

Poem Title:

The South-Sea. 1721.

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When as corruption hence did go

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p.197-201

Poem Title:

A Ballad on Quadrille.

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Says my uncle I pray you discover

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pp.202-206

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.207-212

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.213-218

Poem Title:

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

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When first the squire and tinker Wood

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pp.219-223

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.224-225

Poem Title:

Strephon and Flavia.

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This day the year I dare not tell

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pp.226-228

Poem Title:

Corinna.

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How vain are mortal man's endeavours

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pp.229-232

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.233-235

Poem Title:

Ay and No: A Fable.

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Desponding Phyllis was endued

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pp.236-242

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.243-246

Poem Title:

The Progress of Poetry.

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When first Diana leaves her bed

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pp.247-253

Poem Title:

The Progress of Beauty.

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From Venus born thy beauty shows

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pp.254-260

Poem Title:

Pethox the Great.

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Soon as Glumdalclitch missed her pleasing care

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pp.261-266

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.267-274

Poem Title:

Mary Gulliver to Capt. Lemuel Gulliver.

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In amaze

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pp.275-278

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.279-282

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.283-285

Poem Title:

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

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Beneath this verdant hillock lies

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p.286

Poem Title:

Epitaph on a Miser.

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As when a lofty pile is raised

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pp.287-296

Poem Title:

To Stella, Who Collected and Transcribed his Poems.

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Those dreams that on the silent night intrude

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pp.297-299

Poem Title:

On Dreams. An Imitation of Petronius.

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Pallas observing Stella's wit

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pp.300-307

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.308-313

Poem Title:

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

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