Works

1712.


Parnassia laurus
Parva sub ingenti matris se subjicit umbra.

VIRG.


When Rome, my lord, in her full glory shone,
And great Augustus rul'd the globe alone,...

By Mr. Doddington, Afterwards Lord Melcombe.


--Qu' censet amiculus, ut si
C'cus iter monstrare velit

HOR.


Though strength of genius, by experience taught,...

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,...

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....