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A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes

Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)

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THE PROGRESS of LOVE. IN Four ECLOGUES.
  
SOLILOQUY Of a BEAUTY in the Country.
  
BLENHEIM.
  
TO THE Reverend Dr. AYSCOUGH at Oxford.
  
To Mr. POYNTZ, Ambassador at the Congress of Soissons, in the Year 1728.
  
VERSES to be written under a Picture of Mr. POYNTZ.
  
An Epistle to Mr. POPE.
  
To my Lord --- In the Year 1730.
  
ADVICE to a LADY.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
DAMON and DELIA. In Imitation of Horace and Lydia.
  
ODE, in Imitation of Pastor Fido.
  
Part of an Elegy of Tibullus, translated.
  
SONG.
  
Written at Mr. Pope's House at Twickenham, which he had lent to Mrs. G---lle.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
To Mr. West at Wickham.
  
To Miss LUCY F---
  
To the Same, with Hammond's Elegies.
  
To the Same.
  
To the Same.
  
A Prayer to Venus in her Temple at Stowe. To the Same.
  
To the Same. On her pleading want of Time.
  
To the Same.
  
To the Same.
  
To the same with a New Watch.
  
An Irregular ODE written at Wickham, in 1746. To the Same.
  
To the Memory of the same LADY, A MONODY. A. D. 1747.
  
VERSES Making Part of an EPITAPH on the same LADY.
  
ON THE ABUSE of TRAVELLING.
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THE INSTITUTION OF THE ORDER OF THE GARTER.
  
An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cornbury.
  
An EPISTLE.
  
An EPISTLE to a LADY.
  
An EPISTLE to Mr. POPE.
  
EPISTLE to POLLIO, from the Hills of Howth in Ireland.
  
An ODE to William Pultney, Esq;
  
An Ode to the Right Honourable the Lord Lonsdale.
  
An ODE.
  
An ODE.
  
An ODE.
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An ODE to MANKIND.
  
VERSES to Camilla.
  
To CLARISSA.
  
An INSCRIPTION on the Tomb, Raised to the memory of the author's father, and of others his ancestors.
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EPIGRAMS.
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EPIGRAM I.
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EPIGRAM II.
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EPIGRAM III.
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EPIGRAM IV. Upon the Bust of English worthies, at Stow.
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EPIGRAM V.
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EPIGRAM VI.
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EPIGRAM VII.
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EPIGRAM VIII. On Mrs. Penelope.
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EPIGRAM IX. On one who first abused, and then made love to a Lady.
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EPIGRAM X.
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EPIGRAM XI.
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EPIGRAM XII.
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EPIGRAM XIII.
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EPIGRAM XIV.
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EPIGRAM XV. To Clarissa.
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EPIGRAM XVI.
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EPIGRAM XVI.
  
The Danger of Writing Verse.
  
To the Honourable ---
  
To Mr. GARRICK.
  
NATURE to Dr. HOADLY.
  
The Youth and the Philosopher. A FABLE.
  
An ODE to a Gentleman, On his pitching a Tent in his Garden.
  
On a Message-Card in Verse. Sent by a LADY.
  
The Je ne scai Quoi. A SONG.
  
An ODE On a distant Prospect of ETON COLLEGE.
  
ODE.
  
ODE on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes.
  
A MONODY On the Death of Queen CAROLINE.
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A PIPE of TOBACCO: In Imitation of Six Several Authors.
  
ODE to the Hon. C. Y.
  
From CÆLIA to CLOE.
  
ON A FIT of the GOUT.
  
Horace, Ode 14. Book I. imitated in 1746.
  
The Female Right to Literature, in a Letter to a young Lady from Florence.
  
On Shakespear's Monument at Stratford upon Avon.
  
A SONG.
  
CHISWICK.
  
The INDIFFERENT.
  
The Triumph of INDIFFERENCE.
  
The Shepherd's Farewel to his Love.
  
RIDDLE.
  
RIDDLE.
  
RIDDLE.
  
Audivere, Lyce, &c. Hor. Book 4. Ode 13. Imitated.
  
A SONNET. Imitated from the Spanish of Lopez de Vega. Menagiana tom. iv. p. 176.
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SONNETS.
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EPIGRAM IV. Upon the Bust of English worthies, at Stow.

Among these chiefs of British race,
Who live in breathing stone,
Why has not Cobham's bust a place?
The structure was his own.
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