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Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose

By George Jeffreys

Jeffreys, George,1678-1755

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VERSES TO THE AUTHOR.

Casimire, Book II. Ode 2. Imitated.

[As Camus late his laurel'd Sons survey'd]

[And lives there still of verse that lofty rage]

Original POEMS, AND TRANSLATIONS.

VERSES upon the Death of the Duke of Gloucester.

VERSES occasioned by the Solemnity of Mr. Dryden's Funeral.

Ex tempore; on Sight of a Dance.

On the Death of Parthenia.

An ODE from Sappho, English'd.

A Song.

The Beginning of Lucan, Book 8. English'd.

Part of Lucan, Book IX. English'd.

The Sixteenth of May.

Epigram.

Horace, Book II. Ode 5. English'd.

Horace, Book II. Ode 9. Imitated.

To Mr. Addison, on his Tragedy of Cato.

Riddle.

Song.

An ODE, on the Death of Charles XII. King of Sweden.

Song.

Another.

ODE.

On the Death of Monimia.

On the Earl of Oxford's Enlargement.

Written in a Lady's Tunbridge Miscellanies.

ODE for New-year's-day, 1720.

On a Gentleman who ran mad with Love of a Physician's Daughter.

Epilogue to Money the Mistress,

Epitaph, On the Rev. Dr. Drelincourt, Dean of Armagh;

Prologue, design'd for the Adelphi, in 1720.

Horace, Epode IV. Imitated.

Prologue, spoken by Mrs. Brett,

Prologue, design'd for Merope.

ODE from the Latin of Dr. Pitcairn.

ODE.

To Eliza,

On the Essays on Man.

Epigram.

On the Shell-work in Berkshire.

On a Lady's Hand-writing.

On the Marriage of Sir Edward Turner and Miss Leigh.

On a Lady from India, who loves Bathing.

A Riddle of Dean Swift's, versified.

From the French.

From the same Language,

On the Birth of Sir Edward Turner's Son.

To Urania,

Translation of a Latin Epigram on Casimire.

From the French Opera of Orpheus.

To a Lady.

To the same.

To a Lady on her Birth-day, March 31.

To Veneroni's Dictionary,

A Riddle.

To a Gentleman,

To the same,

On a Lady's bidding a certain Person look in the Glass.

The Farewel.

A Dialogue between a Marquess and a Saint.

The Drum.

Horace, Ode VI. Book I.

Horace, Ode XIII. Book I.

Horace, Ode IV. Book IV.

Epigram.

Another.

A Fable.

Prologue to Esther, a Tragedy;

The Story of Phaeton.

Father Francis and Sister Constance.

Chess:

The Happy Pair;

Epigram, To the Memory of Peter Alexiowitz,

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An ODE from Sappho, English'd.

Happy Man, the Gods excelling,
He, who close by you appears!
He who, on your Graces dwelling,
Drinks them deep at eyes and ears!

When your Words, in Music flowing,
Silent Ecstasy impart;
When your Smiles, divinely glowing,
Fire the dancing, ravish'd Heart.

In a Moment, thro' your Lover,
Warm, the soft Infection flies;
My Tongue trips, I shake all over,
Ring my Ears, and swim my Eyes.

Cold Sweat trickles; Speech forsakes me;
Blood and Sense at once retire;
Gentle Faintness overtakes me:
Now—I pant! O! now expire.