Works

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....

----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,...

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,...