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Inscribed to Joseph Addison, Esq. Secretary to Their Excellencies the Lords Justices.


Gaudia curis.

HOR.


Sir, I have long, and with impatience, sought...

Inscribed to the Duke of Newcastle.


Holles! immortal in far more than fame!
Be thou illustrious in far more than power.
Great things are small when greater rise to view...

In Two Parts.


My soul shall be satisfied even as it were with marrow and fatness, when my mouth praiseth thee with joyful lips.

PSALM lxiii. 6.




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----Ad coelum ardentia lumina tollens,
Lumina; nam teneras arcebant vincula palmas.

VIRG.


From lofty themes, from thoughts that soar'd on high,
And open'd wondrous scenes above the sky,...

Hic pietatis honos? sic nos in sceptra reponis!

VIRG.


Her Guilford clasps her, beautiful in death,
And with a kiss recalls her fleeting breath,
To tapers thus, which by a blast expire,...

To the Right Hon. Sir Robert Walpole, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.


Qu'sitam meritis.

HOR.


With invocations some their breasts inflame;...

Ipse pater, media nimborum in nocte, corusca
Fulmina molitur dextra. Quo maxima motu
Terra tremit: fug're fer'! et mortalia corda
Per gentes humilis stravit pavor.

VIRG.

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Esse quoque in fatis reminiscitur, affore tempus,
Quo mare, quo tellus, correptaque regia c'li
Ardeat; et mundi moles operosa laboret.

OVID. MET.


The book unfolding; the resplendent seat...

Verses Occasioned by the Foregoing Epistle.


Sopitos suscita ignes.

VIRG.


From man's too curious and impatient sight,
The future, Heaven involves in thickest night....

"Ye states! and empires! nor of empires least,
Though least in size, hear, Britain! thou whose lot,
Whose final lot, is in the balance laid,
Irresolutely play the doubtful scales,...

On the Tragedy of Cato.


What do we see? Is Cato then become
A greater name in Britain than in Rome?
Does mankind now admire his virtues more,
Though Lucan, Horace, Virgil, wrote before?...

Sent by Lord Melcombe to Dr. Young, Not Long Before His Lordship's Death.(68)


Kind companion of my youth,
Lov'd for genius, worth, and truth!
Take what friendship can impart,...