Works

Occasioned by the Death of the Right Hon. Joseph Addison, Esq., 1719.


--Tu nunc eris alter ab illo.

VIRG.


O long with me in Oxford groves confin'd,...

Concerning the Authors of the Age. 1730.

Whilst you at Twickenham plan the future wood,
Or turn the volumes of the wise and good,
Our senate meets; at parties, parties bawl,...

All write at London; shall the rage abate
Here, where it most should shine, the muses' seat?
Where, mortal or immortal, as they please,
The learn'd may choose eternity, or ease?...

Who Is Said To Have Stabbed a Person That He Might Draw It More Naturally.(44)


Whilst his Redeemer on his canvass dies,
Stabb'd at his feet his brother weltering lies:...

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


Gaudia curis.

HOR.


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

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....

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?...