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The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop

... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare
Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)

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MISCELLANEOUS.
  
VERSES SENT WITH A COPY OF MOORE's FABLES TO MISS MARY PALMER, AFTERWARDS MRS. BISHOP.
  
TO MISS DICKINS,
  
TO MRS. BISHOP,
  
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TO MRS. AND MISS BISHOP,
  
TO MISS BISHOP, BEING ON A VISIT AT RICHMOND.
  
TO THE SAME, AT RICHMOND.
  
TO THE SAME,
  
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TO THE SAME,
  
TO THE SAME,
  
TO THE REV. THOMAS CLARE.
  
TO THE SAME.
  
TO ANTHONY DICKINS ESQ.
  
TO THE SAME,
  
TO THE SAME,
  
TO A LADY,
  
TO THE BISHOP OF BANGOR.
  
TO ALDERMAN BOYDELL.
  
TO THE REVEREND MR. FAYTING.
  
TO THE SAME.
  
TO THE REVEREND DR. ALTHAM.
  
TO MR. MERLIN.
  
TO MR. AND MRS. SCOTT,
  
TO TWO AND TWENTY TOWNLEYS,
  
TO THE REVEREND GEORGE STEPNEY TOWNLEY,
  
TO THE REVEREND MOSES PORTER,
  
TO MR. WOODWARD.
  
ON THE DEATH OF DR. ISAAC SCHOMBERG.
  
CHARACTER OF THE REVEREND JAMES TOWNLEY, FORMERLY HEAD MASTER OF MERCHANT-TAYLORS' SCHOOL.
  
CHARACTER OF THE REVEREND NICHOLAS FAYTING.
  
MEM: SAC: MATT. DISNEY—ARCHIB. BRAKENRIDGE.
  
EPITAPH ON THE REVEREND MR. BLUCK,
  
EPITAPH ON MRS. HAND,
  
INSCRIPTION,
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TO THE SAME,

WITH A COPY OF MADAM SÉVIGNÉ'S LETTERS.

Such was, in France, but in another age,
A polish'd Woman's sweetly moral Page;
Taught by a Mother's Feelings to display
An Heart so tender, in a Style so gay!
Mary! 'tis yours th' alternate part to prove!
How Filial, can return Maternal Love!
To urge a claim on present Excellence plac'd;
Perfect in Act; as Sévigné was in Taste!
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While conscious Candor shall rejoice to learn,
From what She wrote, and what your Virtues earn,
That Heav'n appropriates Genius, to no time;
Sense, to no sex; and Merit, to no clime!
Superior Minds, like Stars, o'er infinite space,
With separate radiance, various orbits trace:
But when impell'd by Pious Ardor's force,
(Whate'er their period, magnitude, or course,)
Rise in full glow; and shine sublimely fair!—
—For Nature's noblest Energies center there.
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