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77 Easy writing
78 Steady, Soug, Startle, Solid and Misty
79 Grand style of painting
80 Ladies' journey to London
81 Indian's speech to his countrymen
82 The true idea of beauty
83 Scruple, Wormwood, Sturdy and Gentle
84 Biography, how best performed
85 Books multiplied by useless compilations
86 Miss Heartless' want of a lodging
87 Amazonian bravery revived
88 What have ye done?
89 Physical evil moral good
90 Rhetorical action considered
91 Sufficiency of the English language
92 Nature of cunning
93 Sam Softly's history
94 Obstructions of learning
95 Tim Wainscot's son a fine gentleman
96 Hacho of Lapland
97 Narratives of travellers considered
98 Sophia Heedful
99 Ortogrul of Basra
100 The good sort of woman
101 Omar's plan of life
102 Authors inattentive to themselves
103 Horrour of the last
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POEMS
London
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The Vanity of Human Wishes
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Prologue, spoken by Mr. Garrick, at the opening of the theatre-
royal, Drury lane
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Prefatory Notice to the tragedy of Irene
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Prologue
139
Irene
143
Epilogue, by sir William Yonge
237
Prologue to the masque of Comus
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Prologue to the comedy of the Good-natured Man
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Prologue to the comedy of a Word to the Wise
Spring
241
Midsummer
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Autumn
244
Winter
245
The Winter's Walk
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To Miss * * * * *
on her giving the author a gold and silk network
purse, of her own weaving
247
To Miss * * * *
on her playing upon the harpsichord, in a room
hung with flower-pieces of her own painting
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Evening; an ode
249
To the same
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To a friend
251
Stella in mourning
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To Stella
Verses, written at the request of a gentleman, to whom a lady had
given a sprig of myrtle
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To lady Firebrace, at Bury assizes
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To Lyce, an elderly lady
On the death of Mr. Robert Levet
255
Epitaph on Claude Phillips
257
Epitaphium in Thomam Hanmer, baronettum
258
Paraphrase of the above, by Dr. Jobnson
260
To Miss Hickman, playing on the spinet
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Paraphrase of Proverbs, chap. vi, verses 6-11
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Horace, lib. iv. ode vii. translated
Anacreon, ode ix
264
Lines written in ridicule of certain poems published in 1777 266
Parody of a translation from the Medea of Euripides
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Translation from the Medea of Euripides
Translation of the two first stanzas of the song “Rio Verde, Rio
Verde”
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Imitation of the style of ****
Burlesque of some lines of Lopez de Vega
270
Translation of some lines at the end of Baretti's Easy Phraseology 270
Improviso translation of a distich on the duke of Modena's running
away from the comet in 1742 or 1743
271
Improviso translation of some lines of M. Benserade à son Lit 271
Epitaph for Mr. Hogarth
Translation of some lines, written under a print representing persons
skating
272
Impromptu translation of the same
To Mrs. Thrale, on her completing her thirty-fifth year
Impromptu translation of an air in the Clemenza di Tito of Metas-
tasio
273
Translation of a speech of Aquileio in the Adriano of Metastasio
274
Burlesque of the modern versifications of ancient legendary tales
Friendship; an ode
On seeing a bust of Mrs. Montague
276
Improviso on a young heir's coming of age
Epitaphs-on his father
278
his wife
279
Mrs. Bell
Mrs. Salusbury
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Dr. Goldsmith
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Mr. Thrale
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Poemata
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GEORGIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE
From painting by Sir Joshua REYNOLDS
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