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Horace, Book IV, Ode IX. Addressed to Archbishop King, 1718

Apollo's Edict. Occasioned by 'News from Parnassus'

Extract from Cadenus and Vanessa

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.

Extracts from the Essay on Man :

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Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

From the First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace imitated. To

Augustus

To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in her mother's arms

THOMAS PARNELL (1679-1718)

Extract from A Night-Piece on Death

To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison

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