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The Poems of John Byrom

Edited by Adolphus William Ward

Byrom, John (1692-1763)

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I.

VOL. I.—MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

I.

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II.

DIALOGUES IN THE LANCASHIRE DIALECT.

VERSES CONTRIBUTED TO THE CHESTER COURANT.

AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND,

SIR LOWBRED O**N,

AGAINST AN UNGALLANT MODERN ROUNDHEAD.

TO THE EARL OF HARRINGTON: AN APPEAL FOR MERCY.

TO LADY B--- W---,

THOUGHTS ON RIME AND BLANK VERSE.

AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND

THE ORIGIN OF POETRY.

A DEFENCE OF RIME.

VERSES ON THE ATTACK UPON ADMIRAL BYNG IN THE “MONITOR.”

REMARKS ON DR. BROWN'S ESTIMATE.

REMARKS ON A PAMPHLET ENTITLED EPISTLES TO THE GREAT, FROM ARISTIPPUS IN RETIREMENT

REMARKS UPON DR. AKENSIDE'S AND MR. WHITEHEAD'S VERSES,

ON THE PATRON OF ENGLAND;

AN EPISTLE TO J. BL---K---N, ESQ.,

THREE EPISTLES TO G. LLOYD, ESQ., ON THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE IN HOMER:

CRITICAL REMARKS IN ENGLISH AND LATIN UPON SEVERAL PASSAGES IN HORACE.

LINES ON A CONTESTED ELECTION TO A FELLOWSHIP OF THE MANCHESTER COLLEGIATE CHURCH.

EPITAPH ON WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM.

PLURAL AND SINGULAR.

AN ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING LETTER, .

TIME PAST, FUTURE, AND PRESENT.

DISARMING AN ENEMY.

THE EFFECTS OF MANNER.

THE WICKEDNESS OF REVENGE.

THE SELF-SUBORDINATION OF REASON.

THE QUID AND THE QUIS.

VERSES DESIGNED FOR A WATCH-CASE.

AN ADMONITION AGAINST SWEARING.

TO THE SAME, EXTEMPORE.

ON PRIOR'S SOLOMON.

II.

VOL. II.—SACRED POEMS.

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VERSES DESIGNED FOR A WATCH-CASE.

Could but our Tempers move like this Machine,
Not urg'd by Passion, nor delay'd by Spleen,
But, true to Nature's regulating Pow'r,
By virtuous Acts distinguish ev'ry Hour:
Then Health and Joy would follow, as they ought,
The Laws of Motion and the Laws of Thought,—
Sweet Health, to pass the present Moments o'er,
And everlasting Joy, when Time shall be no more.