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Poems on Several Occasions

With Imitations from Horace, Ovid, Martial, Theocritus, Bachylides, Anacreon, &c. To which is prefix'd A Discourse on Criticism, and the Liberty of Writing. In a letter to a Friend. By Samuel Cobb ... The Third Edition. To which is added, Poems on the Duke of Marlborough, Prince Eugene, the Electoral Prince of Hannover, with other Poems. Never before Printed

Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713)

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A Prefatory Discourse.

To His MAJESTY.

A Pindaric Ode,

THE Portugal-Expedition. February 1703–1704.

On the Birth of the Duke of Britany.

The Passion of Myrrha.

The Power of Beauty.

THE Desperate Lover.

THE FAIR INFIDEL.

To William Jordan of Gatwick, Esq. Horace's 9th Ode, B. 2d. imitated.

To Stephen Harvey, Esq;

An Epithalamium.

On a Lady, of a Voice incomparably sweet, who died Young.

Daphne's Denyal

A DITHYRAMBICK:

LOVE and MUSICK,

On a Gentleman drawing his Own Picture, Sept. 1703.

An Ode out of Anacreon.

The 103d Psalm Paraphras'd.

The 130th Psalm Paraphras'd.

The 148th Psalm Paraphras'd.

Descensio Sancti Spiritûs.

On the ceasing of the Oracles upon the Birth of our Blessed Saviour.

To his Friend on the Following Poem.

To his Friend on the following Poem

ON THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.

ON THE Electoral Prince OF HANOVER.

Out of Horace. Ode 3. B. 13.

OF VAIN WISHES.

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Poems on Several Occasions

With Imitations from Horace, Ovid, Martial, Theocritus, Bachylides, Anacreon, &c. To which is prefix'd A Discourse on Criticism, and the Liberty of Writing. In a letter to a Friend. By Samuel Cobb ... The Third Edition. To which is added, Poems on the Duke of Marlborough, Prince Eugene, the Electoral Prince of Hannover, with other Poems. Never before Printed

Samuel Cobb

1675-1713

Printed, and Sold by James Woodward [etc.]

London

1710