The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose, Of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Lansdowne

Lansdowne, George Granville (1667-1735)

Spoken by the Author, being then not Twelve Years of Age, to her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York, at Trinity-College in Cambridge.

To the KING. In the First Year of His Majesty's Reign.

To the KING.

To the Author, on his foregoing Verses to the KING. By Mr. Edmund Waller.

Answer. To Mr. Waller.

To the Immortal Memory of Mr. EDMUND WALLER,

To MYRA. Loving at first Sight.

To MYRA.

SONG. To MYRA.

An Imitation of the Second Chorus in the Second Act of Seneca's Thyestes.

A Loyal Exhortation. Written in the Year 1688.

Verses sent to the Author in his Retirement. Written by Mrs. Elizabeth Higgons.

Occasion'd by the foregoing Verses. Written in the Year 1690.

SONG.

Beauty and Law.

LADY HYDE.

Lady Hyde having the Small-Pox, soon after the Recovery of Mrs. Mohun

The Dutchess of ---, unseasonably surpriz'd in the Embraces of her Lord.

To FLAVIA.

To the same. Her Gardens having escap'd a Flood that had laid all the Country round under Water.

To my Friend Dr. Garth. In his Sickness.

To my dear Kinsman CHARLES Lord LANSDOWNE,

LADY HYDE

To Mrs. Granville of Wotton in Buckinghamshire; afterwards Lady Conway.

MIRA. At a Review of the Guards in Hyde-Park.

To MIRA.

THE PROGRESS of BEAUTY.

TO THE COUNTESS of NEWBOURG,

Epigrams and Characters, &c.

Inscription for a Figure representing the GOD of LOVE.

Definition of Love.

WOMEN.

The RELIEF.

Sent to Clarinda with a Novel, entitled, Les malheurs de l'Amour.

Written in her Prayer-Book.

Mrs. CLAVERING, singing.

SONG

The WILD BOAR's Defence.

For LIBERALITY.

CORINNA.

CLOE.

A RECEIPT for VAPOURS.

On an Ill-favour'd Lord.

CLOE.

On the same.

CORINNA.

CLOE perfuming herself.

BELINDA.

Im Promptu.

To my Friend. Mr. JOHN DRYDEN,

A Morning Hymn to the Dutchess of Hamilton.

DRINKING SONG to SLEEP.

Written under Mrs. Hare's Name, upon a Drinking Glass.

Under the Dutchess of Bolton's.

Under the Lady Harper's Name.

Under the Lady Mary Villiers' Name.

A Latin Inscription on a Medal for Lewis XIV. of France.

URGANDA's PROPHECY.

Prologue to the British Enchanters.

Another Epilogue designed for the same.

Prologue to Mr. Bevil Higgons' excellent Tragedy, call'd, The Generous Conqueror

EPILOGUE to the Jew of Venice.

PROLOGUE to the She-Gallants; Or, Once a Lover and always a Lover.

ODE On the present Corruption of Mankind.

FORTUNE.

PELEUS and THETIS.

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To MYRA. Loving at first Sight.

No Warning of th'approaching Flame,
Swiftly, like sudden Death, it came;
Like Travellers, by Light'ning kill'd,
I burnt the Moment I beheld.

In whom so many Charms are plac'd,
Is with a Mind as nobly grac'd;
The Case so shining to behold,
Is fill'd with richest Gems, and Gold.

To what my Eyes admir'd before,
I add a thousand Graces more;
And Fancy blows into a Flame,
The Spark that from her Beauty came.

The Object thus improv'd by Thought,
By my own Image I am caught;
Pygmalion so, with fatal Art
Polish'd the Form that stung his Heart.

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To MYRA. Loving at first Sight.