Matthew Prior. Dialogues of the Dead and Other Works ::

Matthew Prior. Dialogues of the Dead and Other Works

in Prose and Verse. The Text Edited by A. R. Waller

Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD AND OTHER WORKS IN PROSE AND VERSE

A SUPPLEMENT TO Mr. Prior's POEMS. Consisting Of such Pieces as are Omitted in the late Collection of his Works, and Others, now first Published, from his Original Manuscripts, in the Custody of his Friends.

[POEMS FROM THE New Collection, 1725]

[MISCELLANEOUS POEMS ETC., FROM THE COLLECTION OF DRIFT]

THE EXAMINER. 7 SEPTEMBER 1710

[MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, FROM THE COLLECTION OF EVANS, INCLUDING TWENTY-FOUR SONGS.]

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TO THE REV. DR. FRANCIS TURNER, BISHOP OF ELY WHO HAD ADVISED A TRANSLATION OF PRUDENTIUS.

A PASTORAL.

THE REMEDY WORSE THAN THE DISEASE.

EPIGRAM, EXTEMPORE.

EPIGRAM ON BISHOP ATTERBURY.

ON BISHOP ATTE[R]BURY'S BURYING THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, MDCCXX.

LINES WRITTEN UNDER THE PRINT OF TOM BRITTON, the Small-coal-man, PAINTED BY Mr. WOOLASTON.

WRITTEN IN LADY HOWE'S OVID'S EPISTLES.

UPON Playing at OMBRE, WITH TWO LADIES.

ON MY BIRTH-DAY.

POEMS FROM THE LONGLEAT MSS.

FRAGMENTS FROM PRIOR'S LETTERS, ETC.

POEMS ATTRIBUTED TO PRIOR

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Mids't a fair Troop of smiling Deities:
Grave Janus with Majestic pace draws near
The sacred place where the blest Infant lies
Janus with pleasing Care and easy Joy
Does all his happy Eyes imploy
The lovely Babe to view
Employs 'em all, and thinks them all too few.
Pleas'd and ravish'd with the sight
He wings the coming Hours with new delight
No more looks backward now, but here
From this blest Birth dates the enobl'd Year.

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