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The Works of John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose

Now First Collected with a Prefatory Memoir by his Nephews W. E. and Sir Bartle Frere

Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)

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I.

[“The mystery of the Turnspit in the Wheel]

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MICROCOSM.

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FABLES FOR FIVE YEARS OLD.

I.

FABLE I. Of the Boy and his Top.

II.

FABLE II. Of the Boy and the Parrot

III.

FABLE III. Of the Boy and the Wolf.

IV.

FABLE IV. Of the Piece of Glass and the Piece of Ice.

V.

FABLE V. Of the Cavern and the Hut.

VI.

FABLE VI. Showing how the Cavern followed the Hut's Advice.

VII.

FABLE VII. By Master John's desire, about the Rod and the Whip.

VIII.

FABLE VIII. Of the Nine-pins.

AN APPEAL TO THE PROFESSORS OF ART AND LITERATURE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

MODERN IMPROVEMENTS.

JOURNEY TO HARDINGHAM

IMITATION OF HORACE, LIB. I. EP. XI.

TO A LADY WITH A PRESENT OF A WALKING STICK.

LINES ON ED. NUCELLA, ESQ., ÆT. 75.

WRITTEN IN THE FLY-LEAF OF MR. POLLOK'S POEM, “THE COURSE OF TIME.”

THE BUBBLE YEAR.

EPITAPH ON LORD LAVINGTON.

EPITAPH ON LORD NELSON.

EPITAPH ON THE REV. WALTER WHITER,

EPITAPHS ON MR. CANNING.

ANOTHER ON THE SAME, SHOULD THE FORMER BE CONSIDERED TOO LONG.

ANOTHER MORE CONCISE.

LINES INSCRIBED IN ROYDON CHURCH

TABLET IN ROYDON CHURCH.

LINES ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD EDWARD FRERE.

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[The Gods have granted mighty stores of pelf]

The Gods have granted mighty stores of pelf
To many a sluggard, useless to himself
And his own partizans: but high renown
Awaits the warrior who defends the town.