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Miscellanies in Prose and Verse

By Anna Williams

Williams, Anna (1706-1783)

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ESSAYS IN VERSE AND PROSE.

A SONNET. TO A LADY OF INDISCREET VIRTUE.

THE VALLEY OF THE MOON.

[HERE Pollio lies, whose contemplations fir'd]

The HAPPY LIFE.

On a YOUNG LADY Confined to her Chamber by Sickness.

AN EPITAPH ON CLAUDY PHILLIPS, A MUSICIAN.

TO CLEORA ON HER ABSENCE.

VERSES addressed to Mr. RICHARDSON, ON HIS HISTORY of Sir CHARLES GRANDISON.

To Miss S. GREY. ON HER SINGING.

EPITAPH ON MR. WORRAL OF WORCESTERSHIRE.

Occasioned by the Marriage of MISS --- and Mr. ---.

AN ITALIAN SONG, SUNG BY MRS. MINGOTTI, At the Beginning of the late War, TRANSLATED.

On the DEATH of STEPHEN GREY, F. R. S.

On the DEATH of Sir ERASMUS PHILIPPS,

An ODE, ON THE DEATH of the Patriot MARCUS.

The HAPPY SOLITUDE, OR THE WISHED RETIREMENT.

BOILEAU to his GARDENER.

An ODE ON FRIENDSHIP.

A TRANSLATION OF THE LATIN EPITAPH On Sir THOMAS HANMER.

RASSELAS to IMLAC.

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THE UNINHABITED ISLAND. FROM THE ITALIAN OF METASTASIO.

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SCENE THE LAST.

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[HERE Pollio lies, whose contemplations fir'd]

HERE Pollio lies, whose contemplations fir'd
With zeal angelical, to Heaven aspir'd;
Whose art the pile to raise, the plan to fill,
Surpast the wonders of Dedalean skill;
Whose pleasing converse on the toilsome way,
Dispell'd fatigue, and cheer'd the tedious day;
Whose grateful presence to the festal bowl,
Supply'd the nobler banquet of the soul;
Whom patience taught, submissive, to sustain,
The fierce attacks of long-continu'd pain;
Whose faith, in death unshaken, tow'r'd on high,
And shew'd succeeding Christians how to die.