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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.

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I.

HOW TO MOVE THE WORLD.

THE ASTROLOGER.

ON THE AUTHOR'S COAT OF ARMS.

A LETTER TO R. L., ESQ.

EPIGRAM ON THE FEUDS BETWEEN HANDEL AND BONONCINI.

A LETTER TO R. L., ESQ.,

EXTEMPORE VERSES

THE DISSECTION OF A BEAU'S HEAD.

A Full and True Account of an Horrid and Barbarous Robbery, Committed on Epping Forest upon the Body of the Cambridge Coach.

TO HENRY WRIGHT OF MOBBERLEY, ESQ.

ADVICE TO THE Rev. Messrs. H--- and H--- to Preach Slow.

VERSES SPOKEN EXTEMPORE

TO THE REV. MESSRS. H--- AND H---

ON CLERGYMEN PREACHING POLITICS.

THE PLEASURES OF CHESS.

CARELESS CONTENT.

A DIALOGUE ON CONTENTMENT.

A HINT TO A YOUNG PERSON,

ABSENT FRIENDS.

POWDER WITHOUT SHOT.

EPILOGUE TO HURLOTHRUMBO,

THE THREE BLACK CROWS.

VERSES On the Danger and Impropriety of Hastily Attaching Wrong Ideas to Words or Epithets.

THE APE AND THE FOX.

DULCES ANTE OMNIA MUSÆ.

THE COUNTRY FELLOWS AND THE ASS.

“IN NOVA FERT ANIMUS MUTATAS DICERE FORMAS CORPORA.”

VERSES Intended to have been Spoken at the Breaking-up of the Free Grammar School in Manchester, in the year 1748,

ON INOCULATION.

THE WOODEN HORSE.

UPROUSE YE, THEN.

THE STATUE IN CHEAPSIDE.

LINES TO STEPHEN DUCK.

ON THE WHIG WORKHOUSE BILL.

ON SPECIOUS AND SUPERFICIAL WRITERS.

THE PASSIVE PARTICIPLE'S PETITION TO THE PRINTER OF THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

FROM A GENTLEMAN TO HIS BARBER.

THE BEAU AND THE BEDLAMITE.

ST. PHILIP NERI AND THE YOUTH.

THE CENTAUR FABULOUS.

THOUGHTS ON THE CONSTITUTION OF HUMAN NATURE, AS REPRESENTED IN THE SYSTEMS OF MODERN PHILOSOPHERS.

TO R. L., ESQUIRE,

“THE ART OF ACTING.”

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II.

VOL. II.—SACRED POEMS.

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THE PLEASURES OF CHESS.

Checkmate, dear Doctor! Well, I do profess,
It is an admirable game, this chess,—
A sweet device; whoever found it out,
He was a clever fellow, without doubt.