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The Life and Poetical Works of James Woodhouse

(1735-1820): Edited by the Rev. R. I. Woodhouse
Woodhouse, James (1735-1820)

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VOL: I., II.
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The Life and Lucubrations of Crispinus Scriblerus.
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CHAPTER 1st.
  
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DUDLEY.
  
HIMLEY.
  
DISTANT PROSPECT.
  
OBSERVATIVE REFLECTIONS.
  
MORE REMARKS.
  
SHROPSHIRE.
  
ENVILLE.
  
STOURBRIDGE AND OLD SWINFORD.
  
HAGLEY.
  
LESSOWES.
  
MORE GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
  
RECAPITULATION.
  
GENERAL.
  
BIRMINGHAM AND WOLVERHAMPTON.
  
GENERAL.
  
CRISPINUS' BIRTH, EDUCATION, &c.
  
REFLECTIONS ON EDUCATION.
  
GENERAL REFLECTIONS.
  
GENERAL REMARKS.
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CHAPTER 2nd.
  
GENERAL VIEWS OF NATURE.
  
DEPRECATION.
  
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS.
  
CALM ADVICE.
  
MORE SERIOUS REMARKS.
  
PURSUITS OF LOVE.
  
LOVE'S RESOLVE.
  
REFLECTIONS ON TASTE.
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CHAPTER 3rd.
  
NARRATIVE CONTINUED.
  
GENERAL REFLECTIONS.
  
GENERAL REFLECTIONS.
  
SOCIAL REFLECTIONS.
  
FRIENDLY PROPOSAL PROVED ABORTIVE.
  
CALM REFLECTIONS!
  
AT HOME.
  
FURTHER SERIOUS REFLECTIONS.
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CHAPTER 4th.
  
HISTORIC AND DOMESTIC REMARKS.
  
NEW SCHEME.
  
PATRONESS.
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CHAPTER 5th.
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CHAPTER 6th.
  
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INVOCATION.
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CHAPTER 7th.
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CHAPTER 8th.
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CHAPTER 9th.
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CHAPTER 10th.
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CHAPTER 11th.
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CHAPTER 12th.
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CHAPTER 13th.
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CHAPTER 14th.
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CHAPTER 15th.
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CHAPTER 16th.
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CHAPTER 17th.
  
CORONATION OF GEORGE III. AND QUEEN CHARLOTTE.
  
TO WILLIAM SHENSTONE, Esq., IN HIS SICKNESS, By Mr. WOODHOUSE.
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POEMS ON Several Occasions
  
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AN ELEGY TO WILLIAM SHENSTONE, Esq., OF THE LESSOWES.
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ELEGY II. WRITTEN TO WILLIAM SHENSTONE, Esq., OF THE LESSOWES.
  
BENEVOLENCE.
  
SPRING.
  
THE LESSOWES.
  
WROTE AT THE LESSOWES, AFTER Mr. SHENSTONE'S DEATH.
  
PALEMON AND COLINET.
  
TO THE Right Honourable LORD LYTTLETON.
  
TO THE Right Honourable LORD LYTTLETON.
  
VERSES Addressed to ------ On receiving some valuable Books.
  
GRATITUDE.
  
TO THE Right Honourable the Countess of ------ On the Death of a Daughter.
  
ODE TO APOLLO.
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POEMS ON Several Occasions ... WITH An Address to the Public.
  
RIDICULE.
  
ELEGY ON A FAVOURITE CHILD WHO DIED OF THE SMALL-POX.
  
ELEGY Written in 1784, from the Country.
  
ODE TO THE LILY.
  
A MORNING RHAPSODY.
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Norbury Park, A Poem; With several others, written on various occasions.
  
NORBURY PARK.
  
EPISTLE TO A YOUNG LADY OF TITLE, ON SEEING HER, OFTEN, AT DIVINE ORDINANCES.
  
EPISTLE to the Rev. Mr. SELLON, ON HIS WEEPING IN AN ADDRESS TO YOUTH.
  
EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, In Answer to this Question— Why do Trees Shoot Strongest Upwards?
  
ODE TO A FRIEND, On his Marriage.
  
EPISTLE TO THE SAME, On his desiring the Author to point out the striking Passages in Cowper's poems.
  
EPISTLE TO SHENSTONE, In the Shades; .
  
TO MY WIFE AND CHILDREN, Under a severe affliction in my Eyes.
  
TO MY WIFE, ON HER WISHING TO SEE ME HALF AN HOUR.
  
THE BOY AND BUTTERFLY.
  
AUTUMN AND THE REDBREAST.
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LOVE LETTERS TO MY WIFE;
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LETTER II.
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LETTER III.
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LETTER IV.
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LETTER V.
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LETTER VI.
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LETTER VII.
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LETTER VIII.
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LETTER IX.

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DUDLEY.

Close on the skirts of neighbouring northern height,
Let Dudley's crowded domes arrest the sight;
Where, o'er each sacred fane, and social roof,
Rude feudal reliques lift their heads aloof;
To hint how despot Pow'r, and hostile Strife,
Rear high their foreheads o'er domestic Life:
Swell o'er the supple throngs of humbler Birth,
And stalk, with slavish Terror, o'er the Earth;
All civil rights, and liberties, to chain,
And subjugate Religion's blissful reign!
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Now nods each Edifice in tottering state,
To warn all Tyrants of their woeful Fate;
And tell, by batter'd tow'rs, and wasted walls,
How each dier Despot, in confusion, falls!
Behind, extensive Romish Ruins hide,
Once haunts of Idols, base, and bigot Pride!
Where papal Antichrist the sceptre sway'd,
And Superstition plied her pagan trade;
But now, pure Piety, with righteous joy,
Beholds those Domes in desolation lie.
Nor longer ignorant zeal's false ardour, now,
Repeats vain pray'rs, or vents the idle vow;
No more inflam'd with Demon's fell desires,
Again to kindle Smithfield's cruel fires;
But that blest Profidence, which orders all,
Has forc'd each Fiend to fly, each tow'r to fall!
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