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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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VERSES SENT WITH A COPY OF MOORE's FABLES TO MISS MARY PALMER, AFTERWARDS MRS. BISHOP.

TO MISS DICKINS,

TO MRS. BISHOP,

TO MRS. AND MISS BISHOP,

TO MISS BISHOP, BEING ON A VISIT AT RICHMOND.

TO THE SAME, AT RICHMOND.

TO THE REV. THOMAS CLARE.

TO ANTHONY DICKINS ESQ.

TO THE SAME,

TO THE BISHOP OF BANGOR.

TO ALDERMAN BOYDELL.

TO THE REVEREND MR. FAYTING.

TO THE REVEREND DR. ALTHAM.

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,

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TO THE SAME,

ON HIS CALLING TO INQUIRE AFTER THE AUTHOR'S HEALTH, WHEN CONFINED TO HIS CHAMBER WITH THE GOUT.

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EXTEMPORE.

Soon as I heard your friendly rap,
I wish'd of course from gouty lap,
To greet you with poetic scrap,
But Fancy cried, “Negatur:”
She deals in vanity, a bit,—
But never, in her vainest fit,
Could think of keeping pace in wit,
With Dickins in Good-nature.