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Mr. Cooke's Original Poems

with Imitations and Translations of Several Select Passages of the Antients, In Four Parts: To which are added Proposals For perfecting the English Language

Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

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PART the First, CONTAINING ESSAYS, TALES, AND A RHAPSODY On Virtue and Pleasure.

PART the Second, CONTAINING EPISTLES, ODES, FABLES, SATIRES, LOVE-ELEGYS, PROLOGUES, EPILOGUES, and EPIGRAMS.

PART the Third. THE BATTEL OF THE POETS, In Two CANTOS.

PART the Fourth, CONTAINING PARAPHRASES, IMITATIONS, AND TRANSLATIONS, Of several Parts of the Antients.

THE Lamentation of David for Saul and Jonathan,

Psalm the 97th paraphrased.

Psalm the 137th paraphrased.

A HYMN, From Psalm the 145th.

Simonides on Human Life Paraphrased.

To a Friend, In Imitation of Horace to Martius Censorinus, Book IV, Ode VIII.

An Imitation of the same. To a Foe.

Ode the 4th of the Epodes, On Menas, Imitated.

THE EPISODE of Thersites, Translated From the second Book of the ILIAD of HOMER.

TRANSLATIONS From CATULLUS.

[Translations from Virgil.]

The 6th Ode of the 1st Book of Horace. To Varius.

Of the Instability of Things.

MARTIAL.

Epistle the Ninth. TO Dr. Edward Milward,

Ode the Twentyeth. TO The honourable Master Robert Petre a Day old, 1741.

The Twenty-fourth Ode of the first Book of Horace imitated and paraphrased, on the Death of Sir William Windham Bart.

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ODE the Eighth, To the Same.

I

While, Phillis, on thy Charms I gaze,
My Soul is all Desire;
Who can oppose so bright a Blaze,
Secure his Heart from Fire!

II

While thoughtful of the perjur'd Maid,
Fair Phillis I despise,
Nor longer fear, by her betray'd,
The Tyrants in her Eyes:

III

But when I meet the faithless Dame
My Soul is all Desire;
So weak my Vows, I catch the Flame,
And in a Blaze expire.