Works

By Mr. Doddington, Afterwards Lord Melcombe.


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

HOR.


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

Love Of Fame, The Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires.


----Fulgente trahit constrictos gloria curru.
Non minus ignotos generosis.

HOR.




Preface....

My muse, proceed, and reach thy destin'd end;
Though toils and danger the bold task attend.
Heroes and gods make other poems fine;
Plain satire calls for sense in every line:...

To the Right Honorable Mr. Dodington.


Long, Dodington, in debt, I long have sought
To ease the burthen of my grateful thought;
And now a poet's gratitude you see;...

----Tanto major fam' sitis est, quam
Virtutis.

JUV. SAT. X.


My verse is satire; Dorset, lend your ear,
And patronize a muse you cannot fear.
To poets sacred is a Dorset's name:...

To the Right Honourable Sir Spencer Compton.


Round some fair tree th' ambitious woodbine grows,
And breathes her sweets on the supporting boughs;
So sweet the verse, th' ambitious verse, should be,...

On Women.


O fairest of creation! last and best
Of all God's works! Creature in whom excell'd
Whatever can to sight, or thought, be form'd!
Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!...

To the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole.


Carmina tum melius, cum venerit ipse, canemus.

VIRG.


On this last labour, this my closing strain,...

Inscribed to the Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Germain.


Interdum tamen et tollit comoedia vocem.

HOR.


I sought a patroness, but sought in vain....

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...

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...

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,...